“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.”
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George Orwell, originally born as Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense, revolutionary opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language and a belief in democratic socialism. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
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“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.”
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“It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they...”
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“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”
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“War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.”
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“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”
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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
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“Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.”
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“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
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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.”
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“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”
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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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“Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.”
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“A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.”
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“At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.”
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“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.”
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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.”
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“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
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“I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.”
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“A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.”
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“To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.”
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