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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

George Orwell

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
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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Animal Consume Creature Egg Fast Lord Man Milk Produce Rabbit Run Weak
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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Betrayal Confession Love Matter Stop
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Cow Fear Force Government Home Moral Physical
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Erase Forget Lie Past Truth
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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Book Exhaust Ill Pain Resistance Struggle Writing
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Hear Liberty People Want
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Concept Fade History Lie Objective Truth World
The only good human being is a dead one.
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Dead Human One Liner
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Appearance Design Language Lie Murder Politics Purity Respect Solidity Truth Wind
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth Universal
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Corruption Language Route Swift
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Darkness Meet Place
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Beautiful Book Destruction Reading
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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Change Live Person Possible Society Thinking Want
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Deny Destroy Effective History People Understand

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