On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLReality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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