The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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The object of power is power.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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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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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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