The object of power is power.
GEORGE ORWELLWe have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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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 fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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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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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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