If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
GEORGE ORWELLWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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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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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 die hating them, that was freedom.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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