The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
GEORGE ORWELLHe wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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 most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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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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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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