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Machine Quotes by George Orwell
- Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion,…
- Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine…
- 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,…
- We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
- The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work…
More Machine Quotes
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- Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the… — Antonio Banderas
- I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit. — Travis Barker
- I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine. — Aneurin Bevan
- Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. — Ambrose Bierce
- Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure… — Lewis Black
- I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe Gucci and… — Sara Blakely
- Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being? — Ray Bradbury