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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.

George Orwell

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Clear Enemy Language Sincere
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Face Forever Future Human Photograph Stamp Want
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Criticism Freedom Oppose Press
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Corruption Language Polite
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Goodness Human Quite Time
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Cow Fear Force Government Home Moral Physical
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Darkness Meet Place
News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
GEORGE ORWELL

Advertisement Media News Print
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Believe Intellectual Normal Person
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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Book Exhaust Ill Pain Resistance Struggle Writing
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Authority Conservation Division Liberty Revolution
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance
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
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Hear Liberty People Want
There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Against Clung Mad Truth World

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