Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
GEORGE ORWELLGood prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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