Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
GEORGE ORWELLThe object of power is power.
More George Orwell Quotes
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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