The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELLWriting 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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The object of power is power.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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