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Austin Mackell

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“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, george-orwell, politics, socialism, totalitarianism

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“The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.”
― Edward Abbey

tags: government, oppression, subversion, totalitarianism, tyranny, wit

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“The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, george-orwell, language, socialism, totalitarianism

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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress

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“A Stalin functionary admitted, "Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people, he said, were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason.”
― Paul Johnson, Modern Times : A History of the World from the 1920s to the Year 2000

tags: fear, totalitarianism

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