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- All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make…
- You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you…
- 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…
- The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering…
- There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.
- As Gove knows.... 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more…
- Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to…
- Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
- War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
- A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2.…
- No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions…
- Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture.…
- You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.
- Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only…
- 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…
- Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you…
- For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is…
- Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible,…
- The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost…
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