Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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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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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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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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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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