The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
GEORGE ORWELLWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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The object of power is power.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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