Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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 past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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The object of power is power.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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 animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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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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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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