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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.

George Orwell

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth Universal
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Follow Freedom Grant Politics
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Cow Fear Force Government Home Moral Physical
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Goodness Human Quite Time
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Age Follow Politics Rule World
The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Clear Enemy Language Sincere
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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Animal Consume Creature Egg Fast Lord Man Milk Produce Rabbit Run Weak
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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Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Joke One Liner Revolution
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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Animal Creature Impossible Man Outside Pig
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Beat Human Result Stay Tolerance Worth
Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Amuse Extraordinary Fate Joke Play Series
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Essence Human Inspirational Perfection Seek
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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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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Conscious Rebel
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Absurd Believe Ideas Intellectual

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