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

Quote by George Orwell

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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought...

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought...

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without...

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without...

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

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

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to...

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to...

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

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

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not...

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not...

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to...

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to...

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.

For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the...

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the...

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

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

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they...

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they...

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness...

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness...

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It...

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It...

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty...

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty...

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as...

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as...

Big Brother is watching you.

Big Brother is watching you.