Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLLiberal: a power worshipper without power.
More George Orwell Quotes
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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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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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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