True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLThe greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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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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The object of power is power.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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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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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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