Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
GEORGE ORWELLFreedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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