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"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
"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 further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it."
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever."
"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."
"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness."
"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."
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"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
"All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force."
"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."
"To write or even speak English is not a science but an art."
"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind."
"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues."
"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it."
"The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness, and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better."
"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it."
"The only way to deal with a unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
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"To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself."
"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."
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
"The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history."
"If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself."
"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."
"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
"We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."
"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."
"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
"To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle."
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it."
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"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
"Big Brother is Watching You."
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
"Those who control the past control the future. Those who control the present control the past."
"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
"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."
"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
"The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better."
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