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Society Quotes by George Orwell
- The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.
- 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,…
- A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to…
- It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
- Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
- For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate…
- In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings…
- 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…
- The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle…
- The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the…
- The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
- Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
- Throughout recorded time... there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in…
- The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim…
More Society Quotes
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi