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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.

George Orwell

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Goodness Human Quite Time
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Hear Liberty People Want
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Comment Failure Speak Work
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Change Destroy Enemy
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Face Fit Growth Mask One Liner Wear
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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Betrayal Confession Love Matter Stop
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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Enemy Liable Moments Reflection System Tension Translation Worst
Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Beauty One Liner Positive Share
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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Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
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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Change Live Person Possible Society Thinking Want
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Aim Degrade Human Joke Remind
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Face Hard Time Hero Motivational One Liner Pain Struggle
The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Money Religion Start

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