The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELLThe fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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