If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLYour worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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