A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
GEORGE ORWELLFreedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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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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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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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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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