There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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