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Tell Quotes by George Orwell
- 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…
- 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…
- Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not…
- I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
- Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
- It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product…
- Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.
- The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be…
- If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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- 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' — Wystan Hugh Auden