Help with Orwell quote.?
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it's meant to express the inherent inequality that society creates in mankind.  It's meant to satirize the ideological view of equality amongest men.  basically it's saying, "we're all equal, but some are better than others." it's a great quote i think.
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try about.com's quotation site - they have all sorts of quotes
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Klaatu from " The Day the Earth Stood Still "\n\n "The universe grows smaller every day and the threat of aggression by any group anywhere can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all or no one is secure. Now this does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act irresponsibly. Your ancestors knew this when they made laws to govern themselves and hiredpolicemen to enforce them. We, of the other planets, have long accepted this principle. We have an organization for the mutual protection of all planets and for the complete elimination of aggression. The test of any such higher authority is, of course, the police force that supports it. For our policemen we created a race of robots. Their function is to patrol the planets in spaceships like this one and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression we have given them absolute power over us. This power cannot be revoked. A t the first signs of violence they act automatically against the aggressor. The penalty forprovoking their action is too terrible to risk. The result is we live in peace without arms or armies, secure in theknowledge that we are free from aggression and war, free to pursue more profitable enterprises. Now, we do not pretend to have achieved perfection, but we do have a system, and it works. I came here to give you these facts. It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet, but if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder. Your choice is simple: join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you."
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QUOTE:\n\n"It seems to me that these high profile illegal immigration supporters are trying to re-define our language..."\n\nSpot on, buddy !\n\nLanguage shapes thought.  Propagandists have used this subtle craft to effect throughout history.\n\nGet educated about this age-old problem, it may surprise.\n\nExamples I could use are politically incorrect here.\n\nhttp://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6303
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It's pretty good.  Did you come up with it? Maybe you can reword it to read...\n\n"Do not laugh at others failures when you're not courageous enough to tackle one"\n\nKeep the "one" the same and let it have the same meaning (failure).  I like how you used one as a metaphor.  It makes the quote a bit more profound.
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you didn't give us enough of the quote to know what it's about. What is the entire quotation and what is the context?
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Although it's really tough to find a particular quote if you are not aware of the author, but still i am attaching a link of the website, try finding your quote in the same.\n\nAll the best.
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Hi Chris, given the restrictions I'm not sure if this will be of help, anyway have a look and see what you think.\n\nFahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury\n\nI have found  9 summaries for you to look at, via the links below. \n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Fahrenheit+451\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/results.php3?title=F\n\nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/lit/451/\n\nThese links will give you a summary of the book, character analysis, plot and much more, so that you will be able to answer literary questions. A short extract is included as an example of what you can expect from the summary\n\nIn the last two years, however, a growing discontent has grown in Montag, a “fireman turned sour” who cannot yet name the cause of his emptiness and disaffection. He characterizes his restless mind as “full of bits and pieces,” and he requires sedatives to sleep.  …..\n\nhttp://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-106,pageNum-31.html\n\n1984 by George Orwell\n\nI have found 18 summaries for you to look at, click a link below. I have included a short extract to give you a taste of what the reviews have to offer and they’re FREE..!!!\n\nhttp://litsum.com/1984/\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=1\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/free_book_notes/1984_.php\n\nPlot Overview\n\nWinston Smith is a low-ranking member of the ruling Party in London, in the nation of Oceania. Everywhere Winston goes, even his own home, the Party watches him through telescreens; everywhere he looks he sees the face of the Party’s seemingly omniscient leader, a figure known only as Big Brother. The Party controls everything in Oceania, even the people’s history and language. Currently, the Party is forcing the implementation of an invented language called Newspeak, which attempts to prevent political rebellion by eliminating all words related to it. Even thinking rebellious thoughts is illegal. Such thoughtcrime is, in fact, the worst of all crimes.  More…..\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/page.php?link=http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/1984/&book=1\n\nAdditional Resources\n\nWelcome to Charles' George Orwell Links\n\nOn this site you'll find the best of Orwell's essays and books as well as reviews, news articles and images. In addition, there are hundreds of links to other Orwell web sites.\n\nhttp://www.netcharles.com/orwell/\n\nBiographies and Bibliographical Information on George Orwell\n\nhttp://www.netcharles.com/orwell/bio.htm\n\nGeorge Orwell Biography\n\nhttp://www.netcharles.com/orwell/articles/george-orwell-biography.htm\n\nEssays on George Orwell\n\nhttp://www.netcharles.com/orwell/ctc/essays.htm\n\nTIME MAGAZINE\n\nGeorge Orwell\n\nhttp://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101831128,00.html\n\nOrwell Up Close\nOn the 100th anniversary of his birth, a clutch of new biographies explores the wintry genius of George Orwell — a hero claimed by left and right\n\nhttp://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901030630-460190,00.html\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Not a bad question!!\n\nNot sure that I can help though.\n\nThe first thing that came to mind was this quote by Hightower:\n\nDiscipline without Freedom is Tyranny.\n\nFreedom without Discipline is Choas.\n\n\nI hope that helps\n\nGood Luck\n\nJimmy
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k.g. is right. It's like he's saying "To live or not to live, that is the question..." then he goes on to wonder if it's better to live and suffer or take the "cowardly" way out and end it all.\n\nHAMLET: To be, or not to be--that is the question: \nWhether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer \nThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune \nOr to take arms against a sea of troubles \nAnd by opposing end them. To die, to sleep-- \nNo more--and by a sleep to say we end \nThe heartache, and the thousand natural shocks \nThat flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation \nDevoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep-- \nTo sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub, \nFor in that sleep of death what dreams may come \nWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil, \nMust give us pause. There's the respect \nThat makes calamity of so long life. \nFor who would bear the whips and scorns of time, \nTh' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely \nThe pangs of despised love, the law's delay, \nThe insolence of office, and the spurns \nThat patient merit of th' unworthy takes, \nWhen he himself might his quietus make \nWith a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, \nTo grunt and sweat under a weary life, \nBut that the dread of something after death, \nThe undiscovered country, from whose bourn \nNo traveller returns, puzzles the will, \nAnd makes us rather bear those ills we have \nThan fly to others that we know not of? \nThus conscience does make cowards of us all, \nAnd thus the native hue of resolution \nIs sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, \nAnd enterprise of great pitch and moment \nWith this regard their currents turn awry \nAnd lose the name of action. -- Soft you now, \nThe fair Ophelia! -- Nymph, in thy orisons \nBe all my sins remembered.
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Good question:\n\nMaybe Society or people in general.  Also, if its a quote it could just mean that you dont know who originally said it.
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http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/59100.html
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nAn atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nAn intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nAnkles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nAny man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nControlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future of themselves and their children will, I hope, become so universal and so insistent that no man, no government anywhere, can withstand it. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nDisarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nDo not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nDon't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nDon't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nEvery gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nFarming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nFew women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nFrom behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nFrom this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nHere in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nHistory does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nHow far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without? \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nHumility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nI can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nI deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nI despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nI don't attempt to be a poker player before this crowd. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nI feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nI feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nI hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nI have found out in later years that
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Full quote:\n\n"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."\n\nFear is a very powerful weapon.  When the people of a community or nation are fearful of an outside force threatening their lives they will give up freedoms for the assurance of safety.  It's always easier to incite fear when the enemy is "not one of us."\n\nAs an example....\n\nSome say this is what George W. Bush did over four years ago after September 11, 2001.  The United States was in shock.  An enemy had entered our country, done great damage to property and killed thousands of people.  Nothing of this magnitude had happened like this since Pearl Harbor.\n\nIn an attempt to cut off any future terrorist attacks the President proposed and Congress passed new laws that made sweeping changes in privacy laws allowing oversight and intrusion hitherto not seen before in the U.S.\n\nGenerally a majority of the American public has supported these limitations.  The danger lies, as Madison pointed out, in making sure that these changes are kept in check.
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Its something she says directly. There are many quote sites out there that I am sure you can use to find things by her. Good luck!!
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Looks like the quote is Harvey Mackay, a motivational speaker.  Couldn't tell you what book it might be from, but I do have a website...\n\nwww.mackay.com
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1st one: That is one of the most unintelligent quotes I have ever heard. Who ever would do that is purely ill.\n\n2nd one: I could live with that we will fight but do not expect me to go down easy.