Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLPeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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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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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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The object of power is power.
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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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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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