The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELLWar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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