The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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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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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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