(87 quotes found)
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
H. G. Wells
“He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.”
George Orwell
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
“(Doublethink) to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed”
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”
“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”
“Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper”
“I believe that this instinct to perpetuate useless work is, at bottom, simply a fear of the mob. The mob (the thought runs) are such low animals that they would be dangerous if they had leisure; it is safer to keep them too busy to think.”
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Oscar Wilde
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