There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELLSerious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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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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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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