Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
GEORGE ORWELLBut if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
More George Orwell Quotes
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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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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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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