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
- War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
- Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
- If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
- Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
- If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
- There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
- 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.
- He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
- Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
- We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Best Quotes
- Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
- The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, 'Uh, my house.' It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.
- These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
- Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.
- Well-written words are music.
- Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.
- I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
- Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
- It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.