There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELLDuring times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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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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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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