We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELLThe very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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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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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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