Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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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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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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