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Right Quotes by George Orwell
- For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace…
- 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…
- You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you…
- The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong,…
- 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.…
- Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed,…
- Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot…
- We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts…
- If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas.…
- It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as…
- The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you…
- Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.
- History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
- He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache.…
- Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was…
- If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
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- It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
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