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- The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.
- Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I…
- Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may…
- Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed,…
- In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist…
- Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.
- All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own…
- Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
- I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
- Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
- Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could…
- He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a…
- But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their…
- I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.
- If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been…
- She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard…
- For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage.…
- It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product…
- And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less…
- Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much…
- It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn…
- In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings…
- What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the…
- Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language…
- Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes…
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- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour