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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

George Orwell

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Believe Ideas Intellectual Stupidity
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Follow Freedom Grant Politics
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Believe Freedom Government Inside
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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Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Cow Fear Force Government Home Moral Physical
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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Betrayal Confession Love Matter Stop
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Choice Freedom Happiness Mankind Positive
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Deny Destroy Effective History People Understand
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Argument Finding Protest
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Constant Courage Need Nose Struggle
The only good human being is a dead one.
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Dead Human One Liner
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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Change Live Person Possible Society Thinking Want
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Continue War Win
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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Book Exhaust Ill Pain Resistance Struggle Writing
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Goodness Human Quite Time

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