George Orwell 1984 Brainwashing Quotes

#1. It's difficult to remember when you haven't played it before.

Eugene Ormandy

#2. I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don't have to explain anything to them. I don't have to apologize for anything. They know. There's no judgment in any way.

Emma Watson

#3. Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.

Haruki Murakami

#4. I am not religious in the dogmatic sense ... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.

Charlie Chaplin

#5. Fiction should always challenge what you believe in, and make you think hard about what it is to be a human being.

Joe Mynhardt

#6. If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

Alvin Toffler

#7. It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

Emile Durkheim

#8. Empowerment is the intentional absence of negativity.

Stephanie Lennox

#9. You've been quiet lately ... but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.

Shannon Hale

#10. The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is then being miserable to know oneself to be miserable; but it is also being great to know that one is miserable.

Blaise Pascal

#11. If you feel stuck, bring your whole self to Christ, not just the problem, but you. Ask God to change your heart. Commit yourself to pray to that end. It's God's heart to give good gifts to His children.

Sheila Walsh

#12. I did start out in witchcraft to get boys, to tell you the truth.'
'Think I don't know that?'
'What did you start out to get, Esme?'
Granny stopped, and looked up at the frosty sky and then down at the ground.
'Dunno,' she said at last.'Even, I suppose.

Terry Pratchett

#13. Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.

Barbara Olson

#14. Take responsibility for finding your one true love

Bo Sanchez

#15. We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.

Sylvia Pankhurst