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“Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.
A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”
― Flowers for Algernon
A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”
― Flowers for Algernon
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
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“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”
― 1984
― 1984
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― Politics and the English Language
― Politics and the English Language
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― 1984
― 1984
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