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Mean Quotes by George Orwell
- International football is the continuation of war by other means.
- People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural'…
- The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking -…
- [What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny…
- To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
- Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to…
- Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.
- Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
- To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
- Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
- Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
- Power is not a means; it is an end.
- Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by…
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- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
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- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams