In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Quote by George Orwell
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In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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George Orwell Quotes
- Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
- He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
- We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
- The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
- The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
- Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
Best Quotes
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
- The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.
- Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
- Everyone can write, but not everyone can be a poet.
- If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.
- I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
- You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.
- We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
- Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
- Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.