News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
GEORGE ORWELLAll rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
More George Orwell Quotes
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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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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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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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