True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLPerhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
More George Orwell Quotes
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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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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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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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