Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
GEORGE ORWELLPatriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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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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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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