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Who Quotes by George Orwell
- Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
- All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
- So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
- He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
- Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
- What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in…
- Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
- Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much…
- There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less…
- We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
More Who Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- 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
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle