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Freedom Quotes by George Orwell
- Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.
- Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.
- To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food,…
- In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
- War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
- Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
- I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
- Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
- The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
- Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
- When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys
- In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of…
- To die hating them, that was freedom.
- When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For…
- The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and…
- Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general…
More Freedom Quotes
- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That… — Rowan Atkinson
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood