If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELLThe choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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The object of power is power.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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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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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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