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Quote by George Orwell
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough m

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. – George Orwell

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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. – George Orwell

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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

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Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. – Bertrand Russell

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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. – Richard Wright

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By nature, men love newfangledness. – Geoffrey Chaucer

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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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