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Understand Quotes by George Orwell
- Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I…
- 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…
- The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking -…
- Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one…
- The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The…
- She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.
- 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…
- Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?
- All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting…
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- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. — Saint Augustine
- To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
- Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. — Jane Austen
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila