The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
GEORGE ORWELLTo be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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The object of power is power.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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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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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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