The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
GEORGE ORWELLThe object of power is power.
More George Orwell Quotes
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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