People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
GEORGE ORWELLGood prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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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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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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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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