The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe 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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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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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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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