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.
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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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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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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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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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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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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The object of power is power.
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