If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
GEORGE ORWELLWe have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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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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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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