"Liberal: a power worshipper without power."
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"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing"
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"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
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"A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses."
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"The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside"
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"Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law."
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"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."
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"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal."
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"[A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. Not to have a national anthem would be logical."
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"The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."
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"Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics ... the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise."
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"If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters."
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"The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity."
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"For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him."
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"Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished."
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"Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence."
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"The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'"
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"In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer."
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"At fifty everyone has the face he deserves."
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"The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed."
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