On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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