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Makes 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.
- Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there…
- The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.
- 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…
- One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
- There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less…
- ...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition…
- It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.
- The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty,…
- Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine