But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELLPerhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe 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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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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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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