Politics
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"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
George Orwell
"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."
George Orwell
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
George Orwell
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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four."
George Orwell
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
George Orwell
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears."
George Orwell
"In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
George Orwell
"The essential act of war is destruction."
George Orwell
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously."
George Orwell
"No one has the right to obey."
Hannah Arendt
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"Public happiness consists of the experience of being able to act together."
Hannah Arendt
"We are not born equal; we become equal as members of a group."
Hannah Arendt
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free."
Hannah Arendt
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"The human condition is active natality."
Hannah Arendt
"Action is the only human activity which goes on directly between men without intermediary."
Hannah Arendt
"Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means."
Hannah Arendt
"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after."
Hannah Arendt
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"Plurality is the condition of all political life."
Hannah Arendt
"You can't undo things in the political realm."
Hannah Arendt
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