Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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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 object of power is power.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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