The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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