Sanity is not statistical.
GEORGE ORWELLThe past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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 generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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