Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
GEORGE ORWELLThe past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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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 best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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