Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLSanity is not statistical.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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