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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

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There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

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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.

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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

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

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Each 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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Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

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The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

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Big Brother is watching you.

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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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Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

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A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

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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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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

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

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Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

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One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

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Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

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A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

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If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

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When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

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Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

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