Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLPeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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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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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 kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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