There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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