On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLThe past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
More George Orwell Quotes
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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The object of power is power.
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