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Way Quotes by George Orwell
- There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought…
- The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering…
- There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.
- The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling…
- Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to…
- Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed…
- History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.
- In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to…
- All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own…
- War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
- The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
- The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
- Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the…
- Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could…
- In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the…
- 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…
- Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same…
- He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the…
- We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of…
- Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten…
- The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they…
- It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
- 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…
More Way Quotes
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- When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a… — J. J. Abrams
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
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