George Orwell Quotes, Status, and Thoughts
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.
From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.
Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.