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.
GEORGE ORWELLThe further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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 only good human being is a dead one.
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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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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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