Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Author: George Orwell

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.