Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLThe best books are those that tell you what you know already.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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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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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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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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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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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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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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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