Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
GEORGE ORWELLIn a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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