1984 Dehumanization Quotes & Sayings

People don't belong to people. I'm not gonna let anyone put me in a cage. — Truman Capote

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand ... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep.. that have taken hold. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince. — Kevin Spacey

The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to say that it helps to establish or refute some general law; for science, though it starts from observation of the particular, is not concerned essentially with the particular, but with the general. A fact, in science, is not a mere fact, but an instance. In this the scientist differs from the artist, who, if he deigns to notice facts at all, is likely to notice them in all their particularity. — Bertrand Russell

The only way to accomplish big results is to think big and set big goals. — Mark Victor Hansen

When you delete pictures of your ex off your phone, it feels lighter. — Dane Cook

To evoke the classic period of Italian cinema in a little film seemed like a great, fun thing to do. I had relations to that period. I had known Fellini and I had known Antonioni. I had made a movie with Antonioni and I had visited Fellini in his studios. So, it seemed like something worthwhile doing. You bring yourself to that mythical cinema. — Wim Wenders

Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity — Guy Debord

I quite like some of the movies that have many characters in them. — Susanne Bier

Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing. — Lawrence M. Krauss

We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. — Carl Sagan

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all. — Charles Spurgeon

I have heard Shree Rajneesh and have been inspired by his talks. His works are sublimne and seek to liberate the soul of humans. Indeed his presentation is unique, his goal is great and his success in liberating each person from the mafia surrounding the soul is rewarding reading. The message that he had to deliver must reach everywhere. Ultimately salvation comes when one attains freedom from oneself. That, I believe, is the consummation which exposure to Osho may help. — V. R. Krishna Iyer

I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human. — Ron Perlman