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- International football is the continuation of war by other means.
- The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of…
- The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.
- No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.
- 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,…
- At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.…
- In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.
- It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their position permanently -…
- It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose…
- 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…
- He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind…
- If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not…
- All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.
- Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in…
- 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…
- Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the…
- So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon…
- Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a…
- Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should…
- In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of…
- ...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.
- The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost…
- I think I exist,' he said wearily. 'I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die. I have arms and…
- 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…
- 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,…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — 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
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour