The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELLReality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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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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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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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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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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