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“For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.”
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“Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
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“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”
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“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.”
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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.”
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“"War is Peace" "Freedom is Slavery" "Ignorance is Strength”
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“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”
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“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”
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“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.”
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“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”
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“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
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