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May Quotes by George Orwell
- Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may…
- All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in his joyless mind…
- A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.
- We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
- We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it…
- If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been…
- We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of…
- We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone…
- We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong