The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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