Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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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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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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