Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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