We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELLThe aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
More George Orwell Quotes
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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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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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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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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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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