#ear

And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#barbarous #consider #considered #declare #desire

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#both #fear #force #home #never

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#almost #east #fighting #history #i

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much. ↗

— Bill Owens

#despots #fear #freedom #much #why

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. ↗

— George Orwell

#any #call #claim #consequently #country

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? ↗

— George Orwell

#fair #gives #hearing #his #intelligent

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears. ↗

— Ovid

#fears #full #love #love is #thing

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ↗

— George Orwell

#between #clear #declared #enemy #exhausted

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. ↗

— George Orwell

#bombs #cities #earth #factories #going

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. ↗

— George Orwell

#control #describing #england #family #members