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- I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at…
- The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- [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…
- A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut.…
- When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.
- All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are…
- To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
- That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that…
- You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two…
- Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible,…
- The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work…
- 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…
- Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by…
- If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.
- When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I…
- The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed…
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