Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
GEORGE ORWELLAt 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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