Heroic Quote by George Orwell Download Open image “When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.” — George Orwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Heroic Human beings Nature of man
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
I think survival, with agency intact, is heroic for anyone or anything. — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of. — Sam Raimi Copy Share Image
Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. — Edward Albert Copy Share Image
“To be heroic may mean nothing more than this then, to stand in the face of the status quo, in the face of an… — Mike Alsford 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 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
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“The Coward will run away from danger, only to strike in the dark. The Heroine will run through the dark, even though she knows… — David A. Cleinman Copy Share Image
All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots… — Tim Holden Copy Share Image
I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a… — Adelbert von Chamisso Copy Share Image
She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?" "It's not very heroic," I said dismissively. "I was expecting something with… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front of an… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
