Quote by George Orwell Download Open image ““Applied to an opponent, it is abuse, applied to someone you agree with, it is praise.”” — George Orwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“When others, out of Jealousy, Mistreat me with abuse, slander, and so on, I will practice accepting defeat And offering the victory to them.” — Christopher Titmuss Copy Share Image
“You are a worthy competitor, the best rival I ever encountered, it is an honour to be your opponent, you are better than me… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“TODAY’S AFFIRMATION: Because I am in right standing with God, He surrounds me with favor. Therefore, I have no need to manipulate anyone for… — Deborah Smith Pegues Copy Share Image
“Becoming the opponent means you should put yourself in an opponent's place and think from the opponent's point of view.” — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“Our receptivity to praise stands in no relationship to our vulnerability to mean disdain and spiteful abuse. No matter how stupid such abuse is,… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Praise is a very used, but always new, of surrendering to vanity” — José de Alencar Copy Share Image
“Today I affirm: I am blessed. I am powerful. I am light. I am highly favored. I am more than a conqueror. I am… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“I cannot be defeated, because you are not my opponent. I cannot lose, because I am not fighting. And in the end, all I… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
“see how God used my powerlessness for His purposes. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories,… — Charles W. Colson Copy Share Image
“A great many grown-up and intelligent people believe, or pretend to believe, that by behaving in a friendly and accommodating way to our attackers, we will show them that they have nothing to fear from us and so defuse their wrath. The idea that such behavior would be taken by a ruthless and implacable enemy only as a sign of… — James Bowman Copy Share
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no… — George Orwell Copy Share
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through the city and notes the shattered skull of the suicide, the "grey sick faces of onanists," etc., etc. But unquestionably our own age, at any rate in Western Europe, is less healthy and less hopeful than… — George Orwell Copy Share
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same -- people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their… — George Orwell Copy Share
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
