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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 (1903 - 1950)
- The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), 1984
- He who controls the past controls the future.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
- If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), The Freedom of the Press; Orwell's Proposed Preface to Animal Farm
- Words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), Politics and the English Language, 1946
- In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- The future is a boot smashing a human face forever.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), 1984
- When man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
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