Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
GEORGE ORWELLIt is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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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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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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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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