If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLFreedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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