Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
GEORGE ORWELLLet’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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The object of power is power.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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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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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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