Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.George Orwell
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?
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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
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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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Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George Orwell
To say ''I accept'' in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.
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