There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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