George Orwell Quotes

Just because we don't recognise someone from an area of our own lives, somehow it has become easy to simply ignore them and walk away.

... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.

You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.

I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.

There are some people who are way too sensitive about things. If you're not using the vocabulary that's new that they've helped define, then you're not on their team, even though you want to be. And at the same time, the fact that our president Donald Trump said on record, "You could just grab women by the pussy," and a lot of people in America were like, "Yeah, it's fine, that's something that's said..." There are people that are not sensitive or aware enough about other people and what that means.

It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.

It's dangerous to be people-blind.

Yeah, well,” Nico said, “not giving people a second thought…that can be dangerous.

You know people. Most of them don’t hear anything. Those who hear - don’t listen. A few who listen - don’t understand. And those who could understand… they don’t care.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering

The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.

Going back after a long time will make you made, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.

Most people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom.

Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."

People care. Their hearts are open, but people don't know exactly what the Dreamers are going through, or what sanctuary cities are for, or what's positive about the American Muslim community. When you don't know a lot, you can't do a lot.

Be kind to dumb people.

Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people.

I want to be able to get my point across. I respect people expressing their freedoms and their liberties and their rights, but at the same time I'm almost mindful that my freedoms can be other people's downfalls. I don't want to flash my freedoms in your face all the time, especially if they're going to be detrimental. I can get you to understand my point without going overboard, and we're cool.

You have to learn that people are always listening.

The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them

The boy I loved didn't know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus, so he didn't know if any of us existed.

He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.

The other thing [my psychology professor] said to me was that I was always very mindful of the person who was away from the group, that I was always trying to bring them in.

When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.