Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals 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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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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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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The object of power is power.
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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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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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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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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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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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