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- Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the…
- When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement…
- In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.
- [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…
- 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…
- The more intelligent, the less sane
- A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.
- During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than…
- The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same…
- I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It…
- As Gove knows.... 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more…
- I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and the people can…
- By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.
- A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And…
- In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse…
- The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.
- In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to…
- All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
- Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
- Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
- To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
- What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in…
- One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any…
- 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…
- No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions…
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle