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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. - George Orwell

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. - George Orwell

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. - George Orwell

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. - George Orwell

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. - George Orwell

Four legs good, two legs bad. - George Orwell

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot. - George Orwell

Good writing is like a windowpane. - George Orwell

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. - George Orwell

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. - George Orwell

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. - George Orwell

Serious sport is war minus the shooting. - George Orwell

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. - George Orwell

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. - George Orwell

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. - George Orwell

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. - George Orwell

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. - George Orwell

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. - George Orwell

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. - George Orwell

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