All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
GEORGE ORWELLIf 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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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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The object of power is power.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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