The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
GEORGE ORWELLLiberal: a power worshipper without power.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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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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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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