A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
GEORGE ORWELLAll rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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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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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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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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