Civilized Quote by George Orwell Download Open image “As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.” — George Orwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilized Flying Overhead Trying
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm… — Bruce Baum Copy Share Image
Now listen, buddy, there are a few corny ideas you got to get out of your head if you're going to fly an airplane.… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
I'm more than fly, I'm a pretty calm. I hear these people judging and I don't know why. — Cam Meekins Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't… — Andrew Shue Copy Share Image
When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Don't fly alone..... you are innocent.and the world cruel. your pure heart will drench in dirt. give me your hand to my hand strongly… — Dabbang Damsel Copy Share Image
“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“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… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
We're all intrigued, in our civilized world that we live in, and curious about how we would get on, on an undiscovered island that… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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