In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
GEORGE ORWELLIf liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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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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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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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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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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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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