Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELLThe people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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