Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
GEORGE ORWELLThe real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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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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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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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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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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Rich people are poor people with money.
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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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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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