The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
GEORGE ORWELLSeveral of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
More George Orwell Quotes
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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