Four legs good, two legs bad.
Quote by George Orwell
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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George Orwell Quotes
- War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
- Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
- Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
- It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
- No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
- Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
- There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
- In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
- If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
Best Quotes
- When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
- The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
- My business is to prevent the future.
- I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
- Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
- I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.
- If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
- Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
- I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.