The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELLPolitics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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