Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELLDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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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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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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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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