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Letter "G" » George Orwell Quotes
«The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.»
«There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.»
«The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
atrocities, atrocity, committed, disapprove, disapproves, disapproving, hearing, nationalist, nationalists, remarkable
«The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Jokes
| Keywords:
aim, degrade, degraded, human being, joke, remind
«To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
accepting, as it is, civilization, decay, decayed, decaying, decays, practically
«Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.»
«Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.»
«Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.»
«Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards»
«During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
deceit, deceits, revolutionaries, revolutionary, telling, universal
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