The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
GEORGE ORWELLMyths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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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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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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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