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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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
GEORGE ORWELL

Break Business Inspirational Rule
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL

Follow Freedom Grant Politics
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
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Choice Evil Politics
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Against Class Country Foreign Happen Profit Thinking War
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
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
GEORGE ORWELL

Control Future Healing Inspirational Let Go Past Present
Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
GEORGE ORWELL

Beauty One Liner Positive Share
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
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
GEORGE ORWELL

Transparent Window Writing
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELL

Depth Duty Intelligence Men Obvious Statement
The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
GEORGE ORWELL

Money Religion Start
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Judgement People Thinking Writing
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
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
GEORGE ORWELL

Face Labour Live Miserable
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
GEORGE ORWELL

Animal Consume Creature Egg Fast Lord Man Milk Produce Rabbit Run Weak

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