On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLRich people are poor people with money.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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The object of power is power.
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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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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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