During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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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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The object of power is power.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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