During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELLFreedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
More George Orwell Quotes
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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