"Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear."
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"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."
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"However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing."
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"The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history."
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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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"The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians."
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"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."
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"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."
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"Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--"
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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."
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"A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
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"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."
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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, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."
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"Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose"
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"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
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"Myths which are believed in tend to become true."
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"If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love."
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"There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language"
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"All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers."
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"Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree."
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