Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLIf liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
More George Orwell Quotes
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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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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