Quotes About Independence

If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.

Comrade, said Snowball, those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery. Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons? Mollie agreed, but she did not sound very convinced.

Hasta que no tengan conciencia de su fuerza, no se rebelarán, y hasta después de haberse rebelado, no serán conscientes. Éste es el problema.

Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.

I said. 'It seems to me that when you take a man's money away he's fit for nothing from that moment.' 'No, not necessarily. If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can still keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, 'I'm a free man in HERE''—he tapped his forehead—'and you're all right.

And who are its enemies? It always appears that they are not only those who attack it openly and consciously, but those who 'objectively' endanger it by spreading mistaken doctrines. In other words, defending democracy involves destroying all independence of thought.

La libertad es poder decir libremente que dos y dos son cuatro. Si se concede esto, todo lo demás vendrá por sus pasos contados.

He might be ragged and cold or even starving, but so long as he could read, think and watch for meteors, he was, as he said, free in his own mind.

Morir odiándolos [al Partido], ésa era la libertad.

But there is also the minority of gifted, wilful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class. Serious writers, I should say, are on the whole more vain and self-centred than journalists, though less interested in money.

Kochany, nie obchodzÄ… mnie nastÄ™pne pokolenia! Mnie chodzi o nas dwoje! - JesteÅ› buntownikiem tylko od pasa w dóÅ' - stwierdziÅ'

Whenever A is oppressing B, it is clear to people of good will that B ought to be independent, but then it always turns out that there is another group C, which is anxious to be independent of B. The question is how large must a minority be before it deserves autonomy.

If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor, you can still keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, Im a free man in here- he tapped his forehead- and you're all right

Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two equals four.

There is nothing more dreadful in the world than to live in somebody else's house, eating his bread and doing nothing in return for it.

Given a good pitch and the right amount of capital, any educated person ought to be able to make a small secure living out of a bookshop

To die hating them, that was freedom

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.

Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible. You will never have anything to sustain you except the idea.

If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can still keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here"'—he tapped his forehead—'and you're all right.

Freedom is freedom to say that two plus two is four

En otras palabras: defender la democracia incluye destruir todo pensamiento independiente.

La liberté, c'est la liberté de dire que deux et deux font quatre. Une fois que cela est accordé, le reste suit automatiquement.