There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELLBeauty is meaningless until it is shared.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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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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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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