Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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