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Misattributed quotes — George Orwell

1903–1950

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We have a hunger for something like authenticity, but are easily satisfied by an ersatz facsimile.

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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.

Misattributed Possibly a paraphrase of Bertrand Russell in My Philosophical Development (1959)

We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf.

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The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

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To enforce the lies of the present, it is necessary to erase the truths of the past.

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It's not a matter of whether the war is not real, or if it is, Victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Orwell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.