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- Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), 1946
- Big Brother is watching you.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), 1984 Book 3, Chapter 3
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