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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. - Author object (325)

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. - Author object (325)

In the face of pain there are no heroes. - Author object (325)

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. - Author object (325)

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. - Author object (325)

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. - Author object (325)

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. - Author object (325)

There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them. - Author object (325)

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. - Author object (325)

Four legs good, two legs bad. - Author object (325)

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves. - Author object (325)

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. - Author object (325)

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. - Author object (325)

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. - Author object (325)

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. - Author object (325)

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. - Author object (325)

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. - Author object (325)

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist? O'Brien: Of course he exists. Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me? O'Brien: You do not exist. - Author object (325)

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics. - Author object (168)

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. - Author object (168)