The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELLThe fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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The only good human being is a dead one.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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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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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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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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 do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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