| George Orwell |
Every record has been destroyed or falsified,
every book rewritten,
every picture has been repainted,
every statue and street building has been renamed,
every date has been altered.
And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.
History has stopped.
Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
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But if thought corrupts language,
language can also corrupt thought.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.
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The past was erased,
the erasure was forgotten,
the lie became the truth.
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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.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language |
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.
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It's a beautiful thing,
the destruction of words.
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The war is not meant to end,
it is meant to be continuous.
The end is nowhere in sight.
Because you cannot comply your way out of tyranny.
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They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.
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The further a society drifts from the truth,
the more it will hate those that speak it.
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