During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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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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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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The object of power is power.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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