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    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
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    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
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    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm
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    George Orwell
    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical
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    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history
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    George Orwell
    “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
    ― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
    tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought
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    George Orwell
    “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: future
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    George Orwell
    “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: conscious, rebel
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    George Orwell
    “Big Brother is Watching You.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
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    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    ― Euripides, The Bacchae
    tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: corruption-politics, decline-of-the-west, government
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    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    “We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”
    ― Georg Hegel
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.”
    ― Machiavelli Niccolo, The Prince
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: deception
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”
    ― Machiavelli Niccolo
    tags: political-theory, sociology
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli
    tags: honor, men, titles
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    George Orwell
    “The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
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    Laini Taylor
    “It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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    “I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: ye have still chaos in you.”
    ― Nietszche
    tags: thus-spoke-zarathustra
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “If you crush a cockroach, you're a hero. If you crush a beautiful butterfly, you're a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    George Orwell
    “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: military, police, violence
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    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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    Edmund Burke
    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: evil
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    Edmund Burke
    “Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: doomed-to-repeat-it, history, learning, school
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    George Santayana
    “Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.”
    ― George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One
    tags: history, past
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    Pliny the Elder
    “In vino veritas”
    ― Pliny the Elder
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    Ovid
    “Nitimur in vetitum" -- "We strive after the forbidden”
    ― Publius Ovidius Naso
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    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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