100+ George Orwell Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Sanity is not statistical.
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One Liner Sanity Statistics
Sanity is not statistical.
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One Liner Sanity Statistics
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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Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
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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Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Goodness Human Quite Time
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Goodness Human Quite Time
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Believe Myth One Liner True
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Age Follow Politics Rule World
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Criticism Freedom Oppose Press
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Break Business Inspirational Rule
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Choice Freedom Happiness Mankind Positive
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Business Hide Mask Secret Yourself
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Comment Failure Speak Work
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Erase Forget Lie Past Truth
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Transparent Window Writing
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear True Want
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Darkness Meet Place
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Play Serious Sports
Rich people are poor people with money.
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Money People Poor Rich
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Choice Evil Politics
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Deep Love Understand Want
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Except Inside Skull
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Face Labour Live Miserable
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Corruption Language Polite
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Conservation One Liner Patriotism
The object of power is power.
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Object One Liner Power

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