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The only good human being is a dead one.

George Orwell

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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Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Business Hide Mask Secret Yourself
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Believe Myth One Liner True
News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Advertisement Media News Print
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
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
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Follow Freedom Grant Politics
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Acceptance Belief Contradict Power
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Corruption Language Route Swift
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Deny Destroy Effective History People Understand
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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Beat Club Ground Man Police
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Darkness Meet Place
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
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Age Follow Politics Rule World
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
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Conservation One Liner Patriotism

The only good human being is a dead one.

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