Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
GEORGE ORWELLTrue freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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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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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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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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