Tag: George Orwell
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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
George Orwell
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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
George Orwell
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
George Orwell
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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
George Orwell
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
George Orwell
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What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
George Orwell
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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
George Orwell
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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
George Orwell
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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
George Orwell