The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
GEORGE ORWELLThe further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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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 most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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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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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 people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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