Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
GEORGE ORWELLAll rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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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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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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