We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
GEORGE ORWELLWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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