But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELLTo see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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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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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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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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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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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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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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