Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. George Orwell Read Quote
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. George Orwell Read Quote
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. George Orwell Read Quote
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. George Orwell Read Quote
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. George Orwell Read Quote
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. George Orwell Read Quote
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. George Orwell Read Quote