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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

George Orwell

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Hear Liberty People Want
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Assume Deep Happiness Life Men Object
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Characteristic Charity Hate Human Nature Man Receive
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Except Inside Skull
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Age Follow Politics Rule World
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Erase Forget Lie Past Truth
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Believe Ideas Intellectual Stupidity
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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Enemy Liable Moments Reflection System Tension Translation Worst
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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Animal Consume Creature Egg Fast Lord Man Milk Produce Rabbit Run Weak
News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Advertisement Media News Print
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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Against Defense Politics Represent War
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Criticism Freedom Oppose Press
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Deep Love Understand Want
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Absurd Believe Ideas Intellectual
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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Beat Human Result Stay Tolerance Worth

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