There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLThe most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
More George Orwell Quotes
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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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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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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