

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
― The Common Good
― The Common Good

“My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.”
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“There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.”
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“The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.”
― The Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell
― The Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984

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