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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

The theory of oligarchical collectivism... is held by only a minority of the people.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence.

To survive, you must tell stories.

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

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

In our time, no one is poor but the poor.