Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
GEORGE ORWELLDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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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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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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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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