Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
GEORGE ORWELLPerhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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