People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Quote by George Orwell
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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George Orwell Quotes
- Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
- We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
- There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
- 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.
- He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
- Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
- Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
Best Quotes
- What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
- Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
- I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
- Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?
- If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- Words may be common but the thought conveyed by those words are always unique.
- Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
- Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
- God speaks to us through his language and our language but we only listen to our language