The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELLUntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
More George Orwell Quotes
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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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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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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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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