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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. ↗

— George Orwell

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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ↗

— 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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A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. ↗

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

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For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. ↗

— George Orwell

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