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George Orwell Quote - On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Enemy Liable Moments Reflection System Tension Translation Worst
The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELL

Dead Human One Liner
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
GEORGE ORWELL

Age Follow Politics Rule World
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELL

Always Invincible Moments Win
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Joke One Liner Revolution
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL

Freedom Hear True Want
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELL

Conscious Rebel
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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According Action Bad Goodness Merit
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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Animal Creature Impossible Man Outside Pig
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
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELL

Aim Degrade Human Joke Remind
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Beat Human Result Stay Tolerance Worth
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
GEORGE ORWELL

Freedom Ignorance Peace Slave Strength War
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Liberty One Liner Power Worship
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Believe Freedom Government Inside
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELL

Corruption Language Route Swift

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