George Orwell Quotes About Freedom
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The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.
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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
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In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.
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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.
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Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.
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