The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
GEORGE ORWELLGood prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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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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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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