But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELLFour legs good, two legs bad.
More George Orwell Quotes
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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