All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
GEORGE ORWELLPolitical 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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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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