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.
GEORGE ORWELLThe very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
More George Orwell Quotes
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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The object of power is power.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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 most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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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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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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