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

George Orwell

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
GEORGE ORWELL

Corruption Live Tolerance
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
GEORGE ORWELL

Animal Creature Impossible Man Outside Pig
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
GEORGE ORWELL

Concept Fade History Lie Objective Truth World
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
GEORGE ORWELL

Authority Conservation Division Liberty Revolution
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
GEORGE ORWELL

Face Forever Future Human Photograph Stamp Want
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
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL

Hear Liberty People Want
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL

Follow Freedom Grant Politics
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
GEORGE ORWELL

Believe Freedom Government Inside
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
GEORGE ORWELL

Age Follow Politics Rule World
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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Book Exhaust Ill Pain Resistance Struggle Writing
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELL

Aim Degrade Human Joke Remind
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Deep Existance Human Mind Reality
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
GEORGE ORWELL

Joke One Liner Revolution
News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
GEORGE ORWELL

Advertisement Media News Print
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELL

Corruption Language Route Swift

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