“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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“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.”
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“Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.”
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“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
― 1984
― 1984
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