The object of power is power.
GEORGE ORWELLBut if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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 capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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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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