A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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