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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

George Orwell

The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Money Religion Start
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Comment Failure Speak Work
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Corruption Language Route Swift
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Drift Society Speak Truth
Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Enemy One Liner Truth
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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Change Live Person Possible Society Thinking Want
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear True Want
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Men Night Peace People Ready Sleep Violence
Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Animal Dog Human Legs One Liner
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
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Criticism Freedom Oppose Press
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth Universal
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Deny Destroy Effective History People Understand
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Erase Forget Lie Past Truth
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

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