During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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