But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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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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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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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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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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