Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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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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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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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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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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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.
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The object of power is power.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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