Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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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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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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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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