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George Orwell Quotes: Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
         

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.


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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.



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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.



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So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.



It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.



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