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A selection of George Orwell quotes:

• In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
• He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
• War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
• All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
• Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
• The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
• If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
• Big Brother is Watching You.
• Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
• The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
• Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
• Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
• All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
• Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
• The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
• Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.