I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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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 essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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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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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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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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