The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
GEORGE ORWELLWe do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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 only good human being is a dead one.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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