"This work was strictly voluntary, but any..." - Quote by George Orwell
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
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“What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.”
“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.”
“A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.”
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“Do you see these hands?" Jo said, holding them up. "These were made for caressing handsome men and meant to be adorned with pretty nails and diamond rings. They're not made for paint rollers and paint splatter and that kind of manual labor.”
“Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.”
“If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?”
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“A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.”
“It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.”
“It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.”