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Quotes by George Orwell
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A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. 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. All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
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