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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

In the face of pain, there are no heroes.

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.

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.