Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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