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George Orwell Quote - Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
GEORGE ORWELL

Deny Destroy Effective History People Understand
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
GEORGE ORWELL

Constant Courage Need Nose Struggle
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 choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Choice Freedom Happiness Mankind Positive
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
GEORGE ORWELL

Erase Forget Lie Past Truth
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
GEORGE ORWELL

Deep Existance Human Mind Reality
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELL

Goodness Human Quite Time
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Deny Existence Truth
Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Creature Except Himself Interest Man One Liner Serve
Rich people are poor people with money.
GEORGE ORWELL

Money People Poor Rich
There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
GEORGE ORWELL

Against Clung Mad Truth World
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
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
GEORGE ORWELL

Transparent Window Writing
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELL

Drift Society Speak Truth
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
GEORGE ORWELL

Giving Love Positive
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Continue War Win
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELL

Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth Universal
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
GEORGE ORWELL

Break Business Inspirational Rule
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
GEORGE ORWELL

Believe Myth One Liner True
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
GEORGE ORWELL

Believe Intellectual Normal Person
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
GEORGE ORWELL

Liberty One Liner Power Worship
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
GEORGE ORWELL

Betrayal Confession Love Matter Stop
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Face Hard Time Hero Motivational One Liner Pain Struggle
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELL

Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth
Sanity is not statistical.
GEORGE ORWELL

One Liner Sanity Statistics
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
GEORGE ORWELL

Cow Fear Force Government Home Moral Physical
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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Face Hero Inspirational Pain Physical Stop Struggle

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