We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELLMan serves the interests of no creature except himself.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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