1. "In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
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Quote by George Orwell
2. "Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
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Quote by George Orwell
3. "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
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Quote by George Orwell
4. "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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Quote by George Orwell
5. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
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Quote by George Orwell
6. "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."
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Quote by George Orwell
7. "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
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Quote by George Orwell
8. "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations."
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Quote by George Orwell
9. "Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness."
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Quote by George Orwell
10. "At 50, everyone has the face he deserves."
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Quote by George Orwell