The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
GEORGE ORWELLBut if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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 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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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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