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" Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. "
George Orwell
Only
Technical
Men
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" Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. "
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" Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. "
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Always
Guilty
" I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man. "
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" As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. "
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Religion
Socialism
" 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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Thinking
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" Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. "
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Some
Political
Improvement
" In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. "
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Time
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Our
" War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. "
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Ignorance
War
Strength
" The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. "
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History
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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. "
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Language
Appearance
Political
" Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. "
George Orwell
Power
Hunger
Tempered
" Four legs good, two legs bad. "
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Bad
Four
Good
" We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. "
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Food
Long
May
" War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. "
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Lesser
Often
War
" 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. "
George Orwell
Power
Dictatorship
End
" If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. "
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Vision
You
Imagination
" The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. "
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Time
Man
Personality
" Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. "
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True
Feelings
Your
" Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. "
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Been
War
Therefore
" One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return. "
George Orwell
Child
Adult
Love
" A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. "
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Family
Wrong
Come
" Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf. "
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Only
Others
Because
" Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. "
George Orwell
Tell
Right
Want
" War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. "
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Intelligent
Way
War
" 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, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. "
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Hatred
Politics
Age
" Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. "
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Controls
Who
Present
" Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. "
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Inside
Bucket
Advertising
" Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. "
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Well
Worth
Stealing
" 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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Seen
Reason
Eyes