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Humans Quotes by George Orwell
- The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of…
- You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you…
- I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as…
- A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature
- Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised…
- All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in his joyless mind…
- The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering…
- People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our…
- The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.
- As Gove knows.... 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more…
- When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture…
- The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.
- If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
- The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
- On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
- No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
- Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
- As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
- To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
- War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
- When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
- The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
- Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much…
- Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture.…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong