Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
GEORGE ORWELLDespotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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