The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELLSerious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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