Tag: George Orwell

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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Orthodoxy is Unconsciousness.

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Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

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People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

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Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

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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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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one’s love upon other human individuals.

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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

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