If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery 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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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