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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

George Orwell

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Against Clung Mad Truth World
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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Appearance Design Language Lie Murder Politics Purity Respect Solidity Truth Wind
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 war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Continue War Win
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Animal Equality
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Freedom Ignorance Peace Slave Strength War
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Comment Failure Speak Work
Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Animal Dog Human Legs One Liner
To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Die Freedom Hate
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
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Men Night Peace People Ready Sleep Violence
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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Betrayal Confession Love Matter Stop
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Choice Evil Politics
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Animal Creature Impossible Man Outside Pig
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Absurd Believe Ideas Intellectual
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance

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