The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
GEORGE ORWELLTo be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
More George Orwell Quotes
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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