If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLMan serves the interests of no creature except himself.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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 very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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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.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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 greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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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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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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