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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

George Orwell

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance
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
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Believe Intellectual Normal Person
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Darkness Meet Place
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
The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Clear Enemy Language Sincere
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Character Goodness Possible Test
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 choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Choice Freedom Happiness Mankind Positive
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Corruption Language Route Swift
To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Die Freedom Hate
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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Face Hero Inspirational Pain Physical Stop Struggle
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Believe Media People Tell
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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Judgement People Thinking Writing
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
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear True Want

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

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