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 ORWELLThere are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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The object of power is power.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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