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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. "

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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. "

" All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. "

" Serious sport is war minus the shooting. "

" Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. "

" I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man. "

" The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. "

" Liberal: a power worshipper without power. "

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" Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. "

" Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. "

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

" Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. "

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

" In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. "

" The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. "

" Good writing is like a windowpane. "

" Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. "

" Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. "

" One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. "

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" Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. "

" The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. "

" We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. "

" Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. "

" Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. "

" The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. "

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