On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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 war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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