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George Orwell Quotes: There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.
         

There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.


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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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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.



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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.



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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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All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.



Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

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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.

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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