Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
GEORGE ORWELLThere are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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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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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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