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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

George Orwell

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Argument Finding Protest
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Comment Failure Speak Work
The object of power is power.
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Object One Liner Power
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Face Hero Inspirational Pain Physical Stop Struggle
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Deep Love Understand Want
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Choice Evil Politics
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Corruption Language Route Swift
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Depth Duty Intelligence Men Obvious Statement
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Absurd Believe Ideas Intellectual
Rich people are poor people with money.
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Money People Poor Rich
When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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Beat Club Ground Man Police
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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Animal Consume Creature Egg Fast Lord Man Milk Produce Rabbit Run Weak
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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Change Live Person Possible Society Thinking Want
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Drift Society Speak Truth
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Against Class Country Foreign Happen Profit Thinking War
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear True Want

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