He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit 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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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