Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
More George Orwell Quotes
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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