Showing posts with label George Orwell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Orwell. Show all posts

Thursday, October 21, 2021

Quote du jour

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

- George Orwell

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Quote(s) du jour

“There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time.”

- George Orwell

"We can DO that??"
-Joe Biden

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Quote du jour

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”

- George Orwell

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Quote du jour

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
-George Orwell

Monday, December 2, 2013

Quote du jour

“There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.”

-George Orwell

Saturday, March 2, 2013

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"A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks."
-George Orwell

Thursday, March 22, 2012

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"There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe."

-George Orwell

Thursday, November 10, 2011

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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

-George Orwell

Sunday, June 5, 2011

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"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."

-George Orwell

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Quote du jour

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
-George Orwell