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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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Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope

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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

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But unfortunately you get no further by merely wishing class-distinctions away. More exactly, it is necessary to wish them away, but your wish has no ...more

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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.

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When you think of a concrete object, you think wordlessly, and then, if you want to describe the thing you have been visualizing you probably hunt abo...more

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What happens to you here is forever. Understand that in advance. We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. Things will ...more

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Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because t...more

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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.

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Nothing exists except through human consciousness

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Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O'Brien: You do not exist.

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In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim s...more

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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

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In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats an...more

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The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour. A...more