Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
GEORGE ORWELLThe 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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The only good human being is a dead one.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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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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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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