The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELLThe real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
More George Orwell Quotes
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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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.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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