The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELLLiberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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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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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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