The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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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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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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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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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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