Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
GEORGE ORWELLFate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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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 most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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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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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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