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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

George Orwell

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Corruption Language Route Swift
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth Universal
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Criticism Freedom Oppose Press
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Darkness Meet Place
In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Aeroplane Design Ethics Philosophy Politics Religion
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Judgement People Thinking Writing
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Transparent Window Writing
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Cow Fear Force Government Home Moral Physical
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Face Fit Growth Mask One Liner Wear
Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Beauty One Liner Positive Share
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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Again Choose Human Mind Pieces Power Togetherness
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Hear Liberty People Want
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Age Follow Politics Rule World
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Face Labour Live Miserable

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