The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELLIf liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
More George Orwell Quotes
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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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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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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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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