But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELLSeveral of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
More George Orwell Quotes
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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The object of power is power.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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