The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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