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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

George Orwell

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Choice Freedom Happiness Mankind Positive
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Age Follow Politics Rule World
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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Animal Consume Creature Egg Fast Lord Man Milk Produce Rabbit Run Weak
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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Book Exhaust Ill Pain Resistance Struggle Writing
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Erase Forget Lie Past Truth
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
The object of power is power.
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Object One Liner Power
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Continue War Win
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Control Future Healing Inspirational Let Go Past Present
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Conservation One Liner Patriotism
The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Book Knowledge Reading
Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Creature Except Himself Interest Man One Liner Serve
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Follow Freedom Grant Politics
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Absurd Believe Ideas Intellectual
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear True Want
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Deep Love Understand Want

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