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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.

George Orwell

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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Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Change Destroy Enemy
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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Face Hero Inspirational Pain Physical Stop Struggle
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Assume Deep Happiness Life Men Object
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Beautiful Book Destruction Reading
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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Change Live Person Possible Society Thinking Want
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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Judgement People Thinking Writing
The object of power is power.
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Object One Liner Power
Sanity is not statistical.
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One Liner Sanity Statistics
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear True Want
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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Beat Club Ground Man Police
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Characteristic Charity Hate Human Nature Man Receive
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.
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Animal Consume Creature Egg Fast Lord Man Milk Produce Rabbit Run Weak
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Deny Existence Truth

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