Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
GEORGE ORWELLDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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