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In this game that we’re playing, we can’t win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that’s all.

Failure, Life, Perspective, Acceptance, Reality

In this game that we’re playing we can’t win Some

In this game that we’re playing we can’t win Some

In this game that we’re playing we can’t win Some

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More George Orwell Quotes

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

Humanity, Imperfection, Acceptance, Life, Individuality

“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”

War, Humanity, Violence, Morality, Existence

“To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.”

Orthodoxy, Conformity, Thought, Mind, Change

“Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.”

Perfection, Emptiness, Self-Awareness, Idealism, Criticism

“A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor—it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.”

Charity, Human Nature, Relationships, Resentment, Dependence

“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.”

Writing, Thought, Clarity, Control, Expression

“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.”

Atheism, Belief, Discontent, Society, Reflection

“Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person.”

Antisemitism, Maturity, Society, Prejudice, Growth

“Where there is equality there can be sanity.”

Equality, Sanity, Society, Balance, Justice

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

Literature, Influence, Creativity, Writing, Inspiration

“We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.”

Freedom, Society, Security, Honesty, Survival

“Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.”

War, Democracy, Ethics, Prevention, International Relations

“Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.”

Humor, Rebellion, Society, Subversion, Expression

“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.”

Nationalism, Identity, Intellectuals, Society, Shame

“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”

Identity, Deception, Conformity, Change, Authenticity

“The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.”

Politics, Division, Authority, Freedom, Ideology

“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”

Oppression, Awareness, Control, Rebellion, Society

“After knowing him, I saw the force of the proverb ‘Trust a snake before a Jew and a Jew before a Greek, but don’t trust an Armenian.’”

Prejudice, Trust, Culture, Stereotypes, Humanity

“Rich people are poor people with money.”

Wealth, Class, Society, Perspective, Irony

“Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.”

Envy, Suffering, Emotion, Human Nature, Disgust