True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLLiberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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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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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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