Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLPolitical language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
More George Orwell Quotes
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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The object of power is power.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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