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George Orwell Quote - Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL

Clear Enemy Language Sincere
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
GEORGE ORWELL

Capital Slave World
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
GEORGE ORWELL

Appealing Couple Enjoyment Except Insane Mind Resemble
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELL

Goodness Human Nature Quite Time Want
In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
GEORGE ORWELL

Aeroplane Design Ethics Philosophy Politics Religion
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELL

Conscious Rebel
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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Beat Club Ground Man Police
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
GEORGE ORWELL

Deep Existance Human Mind Reality
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELL

Aim Degrade Human Joke Remind
The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
GEORGE ORWELL

Money Religion Start
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
GEORGE ORWELL

Animal Creature Impossible Man Outside Pig
Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
GEORGE ORWELL

Beauty One Liner Positive Share
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELL

Corruption Language Route Swift
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
GEORGE ORWELL

Transparent Window Writing
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
GEORGE ORWELL

Believe Media People Tell
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
GEORGE ORWELL

Break Business Inspirational Rule
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Believe Ideas Intellectual Stupidity
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELL

Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth Universal
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Beat Human Result Stay Tolerance Worth
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELL

Age Deserve Face Inspirational One Liner
Sanity is not statistical.
GEORGE ORWELL

One Liner Sanity Statistics
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL

Hear Liberty People Want
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELL

Conscious Rebel
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
GEORGE ORWELL

Enemy Liable Moments Reflection System Tension Translation Worst
Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
GEORGE ORWELL

Creature Except Himself Interest Man One Liner Serve
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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Against Defense Politics Represent War
Rich people are poor people with money.
GEORGE ORWELL

Money People Poor Rich

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