It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
GEORGE ORWELLThe aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
More George Orwell Quotes
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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 way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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