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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
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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."
"The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master. With the worthless parasitical human beings gone, there was more for everyone to eat. There was more leisure too, inexperienced though the animals were."
"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
"Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."
"The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal."
"The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature."
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
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