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
- In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
- There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
- There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
- 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?
- Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
- Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
- Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
- War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
- 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.
- The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
Best Quotes
- A magical of success is powered by persistence.
- The best smell in the world is that man that you love.
- In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
- Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
- It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.
- I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop.
- I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
- We have art in order not to die of the truth.
- OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.