As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.”
— George Orwell · Beings
The World Motivation
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.”
— George Orwell · Beings
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.
Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what I heard, to return to a time when I lived in ignorance. More than once, however, I have seen the sublime in people and wanted to cry.
The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
I fear human beings, because we cannot predict the swings of a human being. They are capable of doing anything. I really fear that.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.