There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELLOn the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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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.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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