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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
George Orwell
Men
Beds
Harm
Night
Sleep
Violence
Visit
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
George Orwell
Arguments
Hearing
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
George Orwell
Funny
Rebellion
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
Future
Past
Present
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
George Orwell
Winning
Will
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
George Orwell
War
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
George Orwell
War
Being