"You were the dead; theirs was the..." - Quote by George Orwell
You were the dead; theirs was the future.
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“It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.”
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
“The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. But it is hardly strong enough to call this ideal underlying. It is almost completely forgotten. It has been buried beneath layer after layer of doctnaire priggishness, party squabbles and half-backed progressivism until it is like a diamond hidden under a monition of dung. The job of the Socialist is to get it out again. Justice and liberty! Those are the words that have got to ring like a bugle across the world.”
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“We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.”
“What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!”
“Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have”
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“Life is weaker than Death and Death is weaker than Truth.”
“I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled.”
“Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.”