George Orwell

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. ↗

— George Orwell

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The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. ↗

— George Orwell

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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. ↗

— George Orwell

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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. ↗

— George Orwell

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What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? ↗

— George Orwell

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There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. ↗

— George Orwell

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Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. ↗

— George Orwell

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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. ↗

— George Orwell

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. ↗

— George Orwell

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The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. ↗

— George Orwell

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