There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
GEORGE ORWELLMyths which are believed in tend to become true.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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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The object of power is power.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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