The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
GEORGE ORWELLNews is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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The object of power is power.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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