Tag: George Orwell
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Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
George Orwell
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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
George Orwell
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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
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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
George Orwell
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Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
George Orwell
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Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
George Orwell
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The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.
George Orwell
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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
George Orwell
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I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
George Orwell
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Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell