Orwellian State Quotes

#1. The way I think liberties get eroded is not that all of a sudden you become an Orwellian state, but gradually it becomes harder for people with unpopular views to speak out without being in danger, be it from the state or just from the majority of the people who don't like them.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#2. One thing that kept me from being unhappy was the mountains, for with mountaintops to see, a body can't quite despair.

Florence Maule Updegraff

#3. Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. I was flabbergasted to be asked to write an episode - partly because I've been so absorbed in the last few series that I'd sort of forgotten that it wasn't real.

Frank Cottrell Boyce

#5. Normally it makes me really happy to see, not just that they're in love but that love like that is possible. Right now, though, I just kind of want to throw water on them.

Amy Spalding

#6. There are the class clowns that are disruptive and the kids laugh and you earn the teacher's disdain, I was the kind of class clown that also cracked the teacher up. I was funny in a way that was not dissing the teacher; I was funny just to be funny.

Jason Mantzoukas

#7. Don't be what you're told to be. Follow your own path. Be your own person. Don't get held down by everyone else.

Danny Worsnop

#8. The Orwellian vision was about state-sponsored surveillance. Now it's not just the state, it's your nosy neighbor, your ex-spouse and people who want to spam you.

Howard Rheingold

#9. For any single thing of importance, there are multiple reasons.

M. Scott Peck

#10. ARE YOU ASKING ME WHAT THOUGHTS YOU SHOULD THINK?? What kind of Orwellian police state do you think I'm running here? Think whatever thoughts come into your thinking device, sir. (response to a reader asking what to keep in mind while reading Warm Bodies)

Isaac Marion

#11. Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.

Curt Schilling

#12. They had taken see-no-evil and had made it their own by adopting a state sanctioned Orwellian see-no-evil policy

Jonathan Dunne

#13. Life punishes the undisciplined.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet.

Diana Rigg

#15. In theater, you really work out the kinks and figure out exactly what you want to do and what we want to say, so by the time we have an audience, we're really prepared. With TV, you have a day ... Sometimes, just a few hours.

Amber Stevens

#16. Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

David Chalmers

#17. The expression working like a dog dates back to a time in America when men would rise early, then lie around all day and lick their balls.

Dana Gould

#18. Love one another (His last words)

George Harrison