Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
GEORGE ORWELLSome ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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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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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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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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