"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it."
"It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case."
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Source: George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.210, Arcturus Publishing
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