During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELL
Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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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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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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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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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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