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Life Quotes by George Orwell
- One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.
- This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I…
- 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…
- 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 prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.
- A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut.…
- Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing…
- The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling…
- The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false…
- Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
- But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
- Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
- Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
- Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the…
- Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
- In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer...
- The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
- We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.
- So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon…
- It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.…
- If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas.…
- The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.
- There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston—…
- It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield,…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — 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
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle