Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
GEORGE ORWELLDespotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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