Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery 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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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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