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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.

George Orwell

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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Appearance Design Language Lie Murder Politics Purity Respect Solidity Truth Wind
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Animal Creature Impossible Man Outside Pig
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Against Class Country Foreign Happen Profit Thinking War
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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Again Choose Human Mind Pieces Power Togetherness
Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Enemy One Liner Truth
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Acceptance Belief Contradict Power
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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Aim Degrade Human Joke Remind
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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Face Hero Inspirational Pain Physical Stop Struggle
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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Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Continue War Win
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Erase Forget Lie Past Truth
When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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Beat Club Ground Man Police
There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Against Clung Mad Truth World
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Absurd Believe Ideas Intellectual
Rich people are poor people with money.
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Money People Poor Rich

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