George Orwell Quotes

Comedy is the ultimate anarchist.

It is no longer possible to satirize this state of affairs. Every satire risks becoming a bible for yet another national liberation front. Every satirist risks becoming the founder of a new religion, a Buddha, Zarathustra, Jesus, Muhammad or Marx. Every exposure of the ravages of the dominant system, every critique of the system's functioning, becomes fodder for the horses of liberators, welding materials for builders of armies

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom—he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

Irreverence is an essential part of our culture.

Comedians have to challenge the power. Comedians should be dangerous and devastating - and funny. That's the hardest part.

I think both comedy and dissent are liberating, for the listener as well!

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

If I had my way, I would have sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll at least 4-6 hours a day. So long as there are going to be things in the way of that, we're going to have a revolution.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

An oppressed people will always rise.

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

The seed of revolution is repression.