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" A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. "
Joke
Dirty
Mental
" Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. "
Inside
Bucket
Advertising
" A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. "
Family
Wrong
Come
" All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. "
More
Equal
Equality
" All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. "
Future
Thinking
Facts
" All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. "
Hatred
Fighting
Who
" As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. "
Flying
Human
Write
" As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. "
Christian
Religion
Socialism
" At fifty everyone has the face he deserves. "
He
Face
Fifty
" A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. "
Virtue
Triumph
Him
" Big Brother is watching you. "
Big Brother
Watching
You
" But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. "
Corrupts
Language
Thought
" Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. "
Well
Worth
Stealing
" Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. "
Two
Accepting
Beliefs
" Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. "
Intelligent
Imagination
Generation
" Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. "
Noticed
Newspaper
Life
" Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. "
Responsibility
Sense
People
" 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. "
Self-Defense
Act
Against
" For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. "
Truth
Important
Creative
" Four legs good, two legs bad. "
Bad
Four
Good
" Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. "
Make
Say
Two
" Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. "
Tell
Right
Want
" Good writing is like a windowpane. "
Like
Writing
Good
" Happiness can exist only in acceptance. "
Acceptance
Happiness
Only
" He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. "
Dislike
Much
Who
" I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. "
Punishment
Doubt
Education
" If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. "
People
Want
Tell
" If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? "
Yourself
Free
Right
" If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. "
Vision
You
Imagination
" I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man. "
Inside
Man
Thin
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