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" Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. "
George Orwell
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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. "
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" Big Brother is watching you. "
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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, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. "
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" Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. "
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" When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. "
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" Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. "
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" Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. "
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" As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. "
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" The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. "
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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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" Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. "
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" Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. "
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" We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. "
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" The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. "
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" Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. "
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" In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. "
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" The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. "
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Literature
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" Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. "
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" War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. "
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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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