The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELLOf 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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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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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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The object of power is power.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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