In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELL
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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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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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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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