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George Orwell Quote - There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.

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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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Enemy Liable Moments Reflection System Tension Translation Worst
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
GEORGE ORWELL

Face Labour Live Miserable
Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Animal Dog Human Legs One Liner
Sanity is not statistical.
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One Liner Sanity Statistics
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Transparent Window Writing
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
GEORGE ORWELL

Beautiful Book Destruction Reading
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Deny Destroy Effective History People Understand
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Erase Forget Lie Past Truth
The object of power is power.
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Object One Liner Power
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Argument Finding Protest
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
GEORGE ORWELL

Conservation One Liner Patriotism
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Continue War Win
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Deny Existence Truth
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELL

Conscious Rebel
The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELL

Dead Human One Liner
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
GEORGE ORWELL

Appearance Design Language Lie Murder Politics Purity Respect Solidity Truth Wind
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
GEORGE ORWELL

Animal Consume Creature Egg Fast Lord Man Milk Produce Rabbit Run Weak
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
GEORGE ORWELL

Men Night Peace People Ready Sleep Violence
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
GEORGE ORWELL

Comment Failure Speak Work
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELL

Goodness Human Quite Time
There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
GEORGE ORWELL

Against Clung Mad Truth World
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
GEORGE ORWELL

Characteristic Charity Hate Human Nature Man Receive
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
GEORGE ORWELL

Deep Love Understand Want
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
GEORGE ORWELL

Cow Fear Force Government Home Moral Physical
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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According Action Bad Goodness Merit
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELL

Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
GEORGE ORWELL

Capital Slave World

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