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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

George Orwell

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Freedom Ignorance Peace Slave Strength War
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Beautiful Book Destruction Reading
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Drift Society Speak Truth
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Aim Degrade Human Joke Remind
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Acceptance Belief Contradict Power
Rich people are poor people with money.
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Money People Poor Rich
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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Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Business Hide Mask Secret Yourself
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Animal Creature Impossible Man Outside Pig
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Appearance Design Language Lie Murder Politics Purity Respect Solidity Truth Wind
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Hear Liberty People Want
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Goodness Human Quite Time
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Animal Equality
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel

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