War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
From George Orwell
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
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