People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
GEORGE ORWELLPatriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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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 shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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