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The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to tak...more

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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim tha...more

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All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the party and pr...more

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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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To die hating them, that was freedom

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To die hating them, that was freedom.

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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which ...more

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And shall I still be allowed to wear ribbons in my mane?" asked Mollie."Comrade," said Snowball, "those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the bad...more

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Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

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Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic sociali...more

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In theory at any rate each militia was a democracy and not a hierarchy . It was understood that orders had to be obeyed, but it was also understood th...more