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George Orwell

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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.


— George Orwell


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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.


— George Orwell


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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.


— George Orwell


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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.


— George Orwell


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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.


— George Orwell


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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.


— George Orwell


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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.


— George Orwell


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Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.


— George Orwell


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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.


— George Orwell


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In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.


— George Orwell


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The Thought Police are those who suppress all dissenting opinion. He also often stayed at the homes of Ruth Pitter and Richard Rees where he could "change" for his sporadic tramping expeditions. He received electrotherapy treatment and was declared medically unfit for service.

In 2008 The Times ranked him second on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Considered perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture Orwell wrote literary criticism poetry fiction and polemical journalism. Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture and the term Orwellian — descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices — has entered the language together with several of his neologisms including Cold War doublethink thoughtcrime Big Brother and thought police.

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