Quotes - Sophia (Jacksonville, FL) Showing 1-30 of 143

#1

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

10860 likes

#2

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

7145 likes

#3

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

4307 likes

#4

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: secrets

3538 likes

#5

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history

3092 likes

#6

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought

2891 likes

#7

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

2688 likes

#8

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

2410 likes

#9

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

tags: freedom-of-speech, liberty

2240 likes

#10

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
― George Orwell

tags: politics-language

2146 likes

#11

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: conscious, rebel

2150 likes

#12

“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984

1753 likes

#13

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
― George Orwell, 1984

1627 likes

#14

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
― George Orwell, 1984

1777 likes

#15

“Big Brother is Watching You.”
― George Orwell, 1984

1368 likes

#16

“If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

tags: philosophical

184 likes

#17

“I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again!”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

28 likes

#18

“However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

30 likes

#19

“Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.”
― Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

tags: figures, math, numbers

17 likes

#20

“No sir, it is evidently a gigantic narwhal”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

19 likes

#21

“God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was answerable.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

tags: conscience, god, independence

15 likes

#22

“There is the disadvantage of not knowing all languages," said Conseil, "or the disadvantage of not having one universal language.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

13 likes

#23

“What!You know German?”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

14 likes

#24

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: animals, cats, dogs, equality, pigs, respect

2001 likes

#25

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

37974 likes

#26

“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
― Mark Twain

tags: animals, cats, dogs, grace, reticence

1741 likes

#27

“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"

"I give."

"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: agnosticism, dogs, dyslexia, god, humor, insomnia, pain

1359 likes

#28

“Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: orthodoxy

894 likes

#29

“We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: enemies

829 likes

#30

“Sanity is not statistical.”
― George Orwell, 1984