The object of power is power.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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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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