In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELLThe past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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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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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 you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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