Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten 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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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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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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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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