Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
GEORGE ORWELLMan 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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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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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 greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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