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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

~George Orwell

Topics: Accepting Beliefs Both Contradictory Holding Means Mind Power Simultaneously Them Two

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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

~George Orwell

Topics: Been Facts Foresee Future Ignored Most Obvious Only Own Past People Political Same Thinking Unwelcome Way Wishes Years

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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

Topics: Act Against Before Every Maniac Self-Defense War

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He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

~George Orwell

Topics: Atheist Disbelieve Dislike Does God He Him Much Personally Sort Who

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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

~George Orwell

Topics: Aim Being Degrade Degraded He Him Human Human Being Joke Remind

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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

~George Orwell

Topics: Against Classes Country Foreign Foreign Country Going Happens Only Profit Think War

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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

Topics: Dictatorship Does Establish Makes Order Revolution Safeguard

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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

~George Orwell

Topics: Beings Good Human Human Beings Quite Time Too Want Whole

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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

~George Orwell

Topics: Always Invincible Moment Seem Whoever Will Winning

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

~George Orwell

Topics: Dirt Eternal Liberty Much Price Sometimes Think Vigilance

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: June 25th, 1903

Died: January 21st, 1950

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