Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
GEORGE ORWELLTruth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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