On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLSanity is not statistical.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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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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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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The object of power is power.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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