During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELLThe greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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