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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

George Orwell

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Acceptance Belief Contradict Power
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Depth Duty Intelligence Men Obvious Statement
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 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
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Age Follow Politics Rule World
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear True Want
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
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Criticism Freedom Oppose Press
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 way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Money Religion Start
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Conservation One Liner Patriotism
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Corruption Language Polite
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Assume Deep Happiness Life Men Object
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Continue War Win
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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Against Defense Politics Represent War
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

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