The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELLIn 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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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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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 past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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