Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLThere was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
More George Orwell Quotes
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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