There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELLFreedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
More George Orwell Quotes
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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 way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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