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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

- George Orwell

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That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

- George Orwell

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"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."

- George Orwell

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Men can be highly civilized only while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

- George Orwell

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The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won’t do.

-George Orwell

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“In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

-George Orwell

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So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

-George Orwell

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“A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.”

-George Orwell

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"You cannot be objective about an aerial torpedo. And the horror we feel of these things has led to this conclusion: if someone drops a bomb on your mother, go and drop two bombs on his mother. The only apparent alternatives are to smash dwelling houses to powder, blow out human entrails and burn holes in children with thermite, or to be enslaved by people who are more ready to do these things than you are yourself; as yet no one has suggested a practicable way out."

—George Orwell, reviewing Arthur Koestler's Spanish Testament for Time and Tide, Feb. 5, 1938.