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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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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 real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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In 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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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