If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLThere is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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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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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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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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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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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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