George Orwell Doublethink Quotes

#1. Newspeak, doublethink, the mutability of the past.

George Orwell

#2. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated.

George Orwell

#3. There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't.

Richard Brautigan

#4. I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.

James F. Amos

#5. We are drawn to certain locations where the land resonates with us and pulls us towards it. People can spend their entire lives looking for the places where they belong, places where they feel at home, where they fit and can comfortably set down roots.

Mary Reynolds

#6. Never forget who you really are, or you'll forever be forgotten.

Madeline Johnson

#7. For women live much more in the past ... they attach themselves to places;

Virginia Woolf

#8. I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying

Jay-Z

#9. Hi, my name is Sunny and I'm a bloodoholic.

Mari Mancusi

#10. For seven years after college, I was a waitress at the Buttercup Bakery in Berkeley, and from there I got a job at Merrill Lynch as an account executive, from where I went to vice president of investments for Prudential-Bache Securities. I started my own firm in 1987.

Suze Orman

#11. People have their reasons for the damnedest things in my experience.

Nora Roberts

#12. You cannot lead people you do not influence.

Johnny Hunt

#13. I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls.

Geoffrey Rush

#14. The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink

George Orwell

#15. I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.

Alexander Lowen

#16. Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

George Orwell