There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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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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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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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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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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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