There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
GEORGE ORWELLSeveral of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
More George Orwell Quotes
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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