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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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