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Cannot Quotes by George Orwell
- The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him…
- Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable…
- The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in…
- ...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often - at any rate,…
- Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed…
- Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull…
- The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
- One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
- If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot…
- Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
- To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live…
- What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.
- We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of…
- I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle…
- But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to…
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
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- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood