In the face of pain there are no heroes.
GEORGE ORWELLOn the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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 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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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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