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

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

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In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.

George Orwell in 1984
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The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

George Orwell in 1984
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So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

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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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A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices.

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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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