However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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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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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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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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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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