If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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