Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELL
Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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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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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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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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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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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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