Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
GEORGE ORWELLThe most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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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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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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