On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLIn a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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The object of power is power.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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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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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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