On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLThe people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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