The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELLPower is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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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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The only good human being is a dead one.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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