The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELLMyths which are believed in tend to become true.
More George Orwell Quotes
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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