The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELLThe past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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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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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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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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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