It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
GEORGE ORWELLThere is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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 most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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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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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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