Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
~ George Orwell
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
~ George Orwell
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
~ George Orwell
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
~ George Orwell
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
~ George Orwell
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
~ George Orwell
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Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
~ George Orwell
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
~ George Orwell
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