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“A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.”

“No sentimentality, comrade… The only good human being is a dead one.”

Variant: The only good human being is a dead one.
Source: Animal Farm

“For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.”

George Orwell Why I Write

Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Ch. 1
Source: Why I Write
Context: Money, once again; all is money. All human relationships must be purchased with money. If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters. And how right they are, after all! For, moneyless, you are unlovable. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels. But then, if I haven't money, I DON'T speak with the tongues of men and of angels.

“The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.”

George Orwell book Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: Down and Out in Paris and London

“Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.”

George Orwell book Animal Farm

Source: Animal Farm

“Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist.”

George Orwell

Source: Diaries

“Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.”

George Orwell book Animal Farm

Source: Animal Farm

“Inequality was the price of civilization.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“The more men you've had, the more I love you.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

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

George Orwell book Inside the Whale and Other Essays

Inside the Whale (1940) http://orwell.ru/library/essays/whale/english/e_itw Source: Inside the Whale and Other Essays

“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.”

George Orwell The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius

The Lion and the Unicorn (1941), Part I: England Your England http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/essays/lionunicorn.html "The Lion and the Unicorn" (1941) Source: The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius Context: As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are ‘only doing their duty’, as the saying goes. Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life.

“How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.”

George Orwell

“Those who abjure violence can only do so by others committing violence on their behalf.”

George Orwell

“Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.”

George Orwell

Source: Smothered Under Journalism: 1946

“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event,—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.”

George Orwell book 1984