If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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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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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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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 real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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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.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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