The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELLThe capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
More George Orwell Quotes
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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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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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not 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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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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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