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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

George Orwell

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Concept Fade History Lie Objective Truth World
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Always Invincible Moments Win
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Aim Degrade Human Joke Remind
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Believe Ideas Intellectual Stupidity
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Capital Slave World
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
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear True 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
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Deep Existance Human Mind Reality
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Except Inside Skull
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Liberty One Liner Power Worship
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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Betrayal Confession Love Matter Stop
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Appearance Design Language Lie Murder Politics Purity Respect Solidity Truth Wind
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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