The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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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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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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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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