Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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The object of power is power.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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