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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Hear Liberty People Want
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
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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Against Clung Mad Truth World
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Characteristic Charity Hate Human Nature Man Receive
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Believe Freedom Government Inside
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
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Believe Myth One Liner True
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
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Acceptance Existence Happiness One Liner
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Men Night Peace People Ready Sleep Violence
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Deep Existance Human Mind Reality
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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Book Exhaust Ill Pain Resistance Struggle Writing
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Constant Courage Need Nose Struggle
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Goodness Human Quite Time
The only good human being is a dead one.
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Dead Human One Liner
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Cow Fear Force Government Home Moral Physical

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