Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
Quote by George Orwell
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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George Orwell Quotes
- A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
- The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
- Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
- Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
- On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
- 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.
- He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
- We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
Best Quotes
- The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
- I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
- One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.
- But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.
- I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- People hurt you again if you can't give them any more.
- By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.
- It's not easy to define poetry.
- We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.