Quotes
Authors
George Orwell
"The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed." --
George Orwell
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#Mass Quotes
#Standards Quotes
“Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.”
“In the dark, all cats are black.”
“Focus on becoming more to achieve more while doing less”
“Money is part of how we move through the world, what stores and restaurants we go into, whether we take a train to the airport or a taxi. Describing characters living in the real world requires describing them engaging with money. There are also so many emotional aspects to money - feelings of inadequacy, feelings of security. I am not sure if there needs to be more about money in fiction, but the absence of this aspect can make a story feel somehow frictionless and unreal.”
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“Achievement brings its own anticlimax.”
“I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-”
“You have been told that God is a loving, gracious, merciful, kind, compassionate, wonderful, and good sky fairy who runs a day care in the sky and has a bucket of suckers for everyone because we’re all good people. That is a lie… God looks down and says ‘I hate you, you are my enemy, and I will crush you,’ and we say that is deserved, right and just, and then God says ‘Because of Jesus I will love you and forgive you.’ This is a miracle.”
“Use God's mighty weapons, not those made by men, to knock down the devil's strongholds.”