Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLIn philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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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