If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
GEORGE ORWELLOn the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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