The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language
It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
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