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A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
[ Jokes and Jokers ]
George Orwell
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A liberal is a power worshipper without the power.
[ Liberals ]
George Orwell
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
[ Equality ]
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All animals are equalBut some animals are more equal than others
[ Uncategorised ]
George Orwell
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Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
[ Newspapers ]
George Orwell
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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
[ Responsibility ]
George Orwell
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For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
[ Animals ]
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
[ Freedom ]
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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
[ Freedom ]
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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.
[ Oppression ]
George Orwell
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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
[ Language ]
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Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
[ Technology ]
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness
[ Happiness ]
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
[ Myth ]
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
[ Nationalities and Nationalism ]
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
[ School ]
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
[ Goodness ]
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One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
[ Catholicism ]
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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
[ Progress ]
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Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
[ Saints ]
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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
[ War ]
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To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
[ Civilization ]
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To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.
[ Common Sense ]
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To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
[ Survival ]
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WAR IS PEACEFREEDOM IS SLAVERYIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
[ Uncategorised ]
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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
[ Food and Eating ]
George Orwell
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Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
[ Past ]
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
[ Achievement ]
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