The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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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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