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• The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'

  George Orwell

  Fascism, Desirable

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

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• Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Two, Mind

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 2, ch. 9 (1949)

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• England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box.

  George Orwell

  Country, Horse, Kings

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  George Orwell

  Men, Clubs, Sides

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• Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

  George Orwell

  Two, Evil, Choices

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• The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Lying, Believe

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• In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Writing, Political Language

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• We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Individual, States

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• Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

  George Orwell

  Motivational, Enemy, Truth Is

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• I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

  George Orwell

  Funny, Life, Talking

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.556, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.

  George Orwell

  Doe, World, Decent

  George Orwell (1998). “Two wasted years, 1943”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

  George Orwell

  Badass, Intelligent, Imagination

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.

  George Orwell

  Believe, Triumph, Ifs

  "Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950".

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• The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Wall, Home

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: A patriot after all, 1940-1941”

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• One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.

  George Orwell

  Men, Atheism, Anarchist

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  George Orwell

  Philosophy, Gun, Two

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.151, Arcturus Publishing

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• Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

  George Orwell

  Mean, Criticize, Freedom Of The Press

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

  George Orwell

  Together Again, Mind, Pieces

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.573, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

  George Orwell

  Home, Government, Cows

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental , nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink

  George Orwell

  War, Lying, Exercise

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.467, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Rich people are poor people with money.

  George Orwell

  People, Rich, Poor

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• A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Past, Order

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist.

  George Orwell

  People, Population, Teach

  "Diaries".

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  Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

  George Orwell

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  George Orwell (1946). “Critical Essays”

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• The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

  George Orwell

  Murder, Terrorism, Oppression

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