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Our Time Quotes by George Orwell
- Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable…
- In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and…
- In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
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- We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time. — Pope Benedict XVI
- Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. — John Berger
- Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and… — Renata Adler
- The joke of our time is the suicide of intention. — Theodor Adorno
- I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to… — Lewis Black
- Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less. — Alvar Aalto
- Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and… — Lisa Bonet
- I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas. — Alain de Botton
- The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in… — Jimmy Buffett
- The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time. — Luis Bunuel
- So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time,… — Tony Campolo
- Ostwald was a great protagonist and an inspiring teacher. He had the gift of saying the right thing in the right way.… — Wilder Dwight Bancroft