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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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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Believe Ideas Intellectual Stupidity
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELL

Goodness Human Nature Quite Time Want
To die hating them, that was freedom.
GEORGE ORWELL

Die Freedom Hate
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELL

Character Goodness Possible Test
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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Beat Club Ground Man Police
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Acceptance Belief Contradict Power
The only good human being is a dead one.
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Dead Human One Liner
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Change Destroy Enemy
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
GEORGE ORWELL

Criticism Freedom Oppose Press
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
GEORGE ORWELL

According Action Bad Goodness Merit
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
GEORGE ORWELL

Giving Love Positive
Sanity is not statistical.
GEORGE ORWELL

One Liner Sanity Statistics
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
GEORGE ORWELL

Capital Slave World
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
GEORGE ORWELL

Liberty One Liner Power Worship
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
GEORGE ORWELL

Change Live Person Possible Society Thinking Want
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
GEORGE ORWELL

Believe Intellectual Normal Person

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