There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELL
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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The object of power is power.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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