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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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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. ↗

— George Orwell

#any #call #claim #consequently #country

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

#fair #gives #hearing #his #intelligent

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears. ↗

— Ovid

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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

#bucket #inside #rattling #stick

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

#between #clear #declared #enemy #exhausted

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. ↗

— George Orwell

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