Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
GEORGE ORWELLThe capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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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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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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