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George Orwell Quote - Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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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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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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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