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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

George Orwell

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Follow Freedom Grant Politics
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Believe Freedom Government Inside
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Criticism Freedom Oppose Press
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Face Hero Inspirational Pain Physical Stop Struggle
Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Animal Dog Human Legs One Liner
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Men Night Peace People Ready Sleep Violence
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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Aeroplane Design Ethics Philosophy Politics Religion
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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Against Clung Mad Truth World
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth
Rich people are poor people with money.
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Money People Poor Rich
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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Again Choose Human Mind Pieces Power Togetherness
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Deny Destroy Effective History People Understand
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Character Goodness Possible Test
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Change Destroy Enemy
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Cow Fear Force Government Home Moral Physical

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