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Torture (n.) squeezes one empty (of ordinary human feelings of love, friendship, joy, courage, integrity, etc.) and then fills one with the torturer.
The Scotsman (n.) is not at home unless he is abroad, just as the English are not happy unless they are miserable, and the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war.
Freedom (n.) is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.
Freedom (n.) is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Freedom (n.) is slavery. Ignorance is strength. War is peace.
Tyranny's (n.) final and most essential command is to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.
Tyranny (n.) is that wherein the past is erased, the erasure is forgotten, the lie becomes the truth.
Tyranny (n.) is one of those themes which cannot be celebrated in words. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the inquisition.
Tyranny (n.) is such that all tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force..
Tyranny (n.) is such that, through its prism, history stops and nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
Tyranny (n.) is such that the tyrant destroys his own freedom, for he becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy for the oppressed: he wears a mask and his face grows to fit it.
Sports (n.) are war minus the shooting.
Sports (n.) are not at all about 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.
Terrorism's (n.) object is nothing other than terrorism, just as the object of oppression is nothing other than oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power.
The Animal's (n.) life is but misery and slavery.
Corruption (n.) is impossible to not be party to in a corrupt society. One cannot live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself.
Oppression's (n.) object is oppression, just as the object of terrorism is terrorism, just as the object of torture is torture, just as the object of murder is murder, and the object of power is power.
Sharing (n.) gives the world meaning. Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.