Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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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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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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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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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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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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