The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
GEORGE ORWELLWhoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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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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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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 essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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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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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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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