Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Quote by 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.
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George Orwell Quotes
- For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
- If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
- In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
- Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
- A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
- Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
- 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.
- In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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