There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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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 essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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