In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
GEORGE ORWELLTo be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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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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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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