If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
GEORGE ORWELLPolitics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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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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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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