The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELLSerious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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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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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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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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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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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