Authoritarianism Quote by George Orwell Download Open image ““TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE”” — George Orwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authoritarianism Orwell Russian revolution Satire
“Very well, I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but...two and two make five is also a very fine… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
My whole life . . . two and two has made four.”... “But now . . . it’s all gone wrong.” She shook her… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is easier to get the attention of the press when one says, as Ibsen4 did, that “two and two make five,” than to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Don't come on my show and tell me two plus two equals five. That is a waste of my time, and more importantly that… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane… — George Orwell 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
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Motherland is our property and we have right to handle our properties as pleased. The jokes about death for the sake of the motherland… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Your best friends are your principles, if you havent them, dont look for another friend. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A strong saying is not afraid of criticism, because it includes all the answers to criticism. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“Therapy requires a collaborative working relationship in which both partners act on the basis of their implicit confidence in the value and efficacy of… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
The libertarian can have no truck with 'left' or 'right' because he regrets any form of authoritarianism - the use of police force to… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
“Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system;… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image