However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
GEORGE ORWELLPolitical language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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