The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change 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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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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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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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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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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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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