Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Quote by George Orwell
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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George Orwell Quotes
- He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
- People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
- In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
- Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
- Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
- On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
- War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
Best Quotes
- In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
- I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.
- Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
- As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
- Every speaker has a mouth An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
- My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
- A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
- Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
- I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
- God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.