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Most Quotes by George Orwell
- Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.
- The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he…
- They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them,…
- Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected,…
- The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.
- The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .
- The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened…
- The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce,…
- The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false…
- Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed…
- It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and…
- All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own…
- Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the…
- The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms…
- Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy,…
- The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
- I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for…
- 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…
- In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the…
- I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.
- Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten…
- England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.
- The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster