There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
GEORGE ORWELLPatriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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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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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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