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Political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot ch...more

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At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is n...more

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in our age there is no such thing as " keeping out of politics " all issues are political issues , and politics itself is a mass of lies , evasions , ...more

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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.

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All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe and ...more

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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, a...more

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What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms o...more

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There was a direct intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the fear, the hatred, and the lunatic credulity which t...more

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Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

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The girl with dark hair was coming towards them across the field. With what seemed a single movement she tore off her clothes and flung them disdainfu...more

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

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Cut off from contact with the outer world, and with the past, the citizen of Oceania is like a man in interstellar space, who has no way of knowing wh...more

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And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

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A Party member is expected to have no private emotions and no respites from enthusiasm. He is supposed to live in a continuous frenzy of hatred of for...more

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And why do you imagine that we bring people to this place?’ ‘To make them confess.’ ‘No, that is not the reason. Try again.’ ‘To punish them.’ ‘No!’ e...more