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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.

George Orwell

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Judgement People Thinking Writing
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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According Action Bad Goodness Merit
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Face Forever Future Human Photograph Stamp Want
Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Amuse Extraordinary Fate Joke Play Series
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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Animal Consume Creature Egg Fast Lord Man Milk Produce Rabbit Run Weak
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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Animal Creature Impossible Man Outside Pig
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Criticism Freedom Oppose Press
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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Against Defense Politics Represent War
The only good human being is a dead one.
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Dead Human One Liner
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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Enemy Liable Moments Reflection System Tension Translation Worst
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Against Class Country Foreign Happen Profit Thinking War
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Darkness Meet Place
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Face Labour Live Miserable
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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Again Choose Human Mind Pieces Power Togetherness
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Except Inside Skull
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Choice Evil Politics

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