The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELLWar against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
More George Orwell Quotes
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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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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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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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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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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