The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
GEORGE ORWELLFour legs good, two legs bad.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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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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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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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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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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