There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLTo die hating them, that was freedom.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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The object of power is power.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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