All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
GEORGE ORWELLMyths which are believed in tend to become true.
More George Orwell Quotes
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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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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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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