There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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