Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELLWe do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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 essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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