George Orwell Quotes

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

George Orwell

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• Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Trying
  • Guitar
  • Bridge

• Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Why
  • Door
  • Speak

• I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Graduation

• Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • People
  • Work
  • Sound

• Having children is not for everyone, but I think it's a beautiful lesson in it not being all about me anymore. It's a relief, in a way. It's like, this is her story now, and I'm her mom. It's a nice shift.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Nice

• At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Believe
  • Feel
  • I Believe

• It is past time that consumers recognize the emerging power of 'Made In America' products and services. The nation's shopping list needs this header: Check out what is made here before you 'go' overseas.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Time
  • Power
  • America

• In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang and entertained prince and pauper.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • First
  • Prince
  • Tradition

• And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Art
  • Understanding

• People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Eyes
  • I Can

• I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Country
  • America
  • Culture

• This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Important
  • Why
  • Small

• The creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Intelligent

• Societies evolve based on new understandings and new science and new appreciation of who we are.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Science
  • Appreciation

• Without some common baseline of facts, without a willingness to admit new information, and concede that your opponent might be making a fair point, and that science and reason matter - then we're going to keep talking past each other, and we'll make common ground and compromise impossible.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Science
  • Past

• My curiosity sister of larks.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Sister
  • Curiosity

• In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.

  

  Alain Badiou
  • Work
  • Courage

• Arnold Schwarzenegger's publicist told USA Today that the actor has not ruled out running for governor of California, saying that he will make a decision soon. Reportedly Arnold needs that time to learn how to pronounce 'gubernatorial.'

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • Time
  • Today
  • Running

• I'm pagan.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Pagan

• It was virtually impossible to think of a sentence that made a positive use of that dreadful word ‘enough’, let alone one that started raving about ‘nothing’.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Alone
  • Positive

• The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

  

  George Orwell
  • History
  • Destroy
  • Effective