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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

Inspirational, Life, Hate

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Inspirational, Life, People

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

Believe, Media, People

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Force, Fraud, Tyranny

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.

Party, Book, Politics

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.249, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.

Speech, Want, Free Speech

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

Lying, Past, Forgotten

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

Language, Corruption, Routes

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

People, Ignorant, Influence

"George Orwell: A Life in Letters".

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

Class, Succeed, Objective Truth

George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

Stupid, Believe, Ideas

Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.

Real, Class, Essentials

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

Goes On, Deny

George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell: Animal farm”

Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.

Freedom, Writing, Rights

George Orwell (1998). “It is what I think, 1947-1948”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Witty, Peace, Truth

"Politics and the English Language" (1946)

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

Fire, Wings, People

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Peace, War, Lying

George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

Real, Character, Doing You

Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.

Believe, Enemy, Atrocities

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

War, 1984 Movie, East Asia

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

Fear, Effectiveness, Challenges

George Orwell (1987). “Animal farm: a fairy story”, Harvill Secker

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

Believe, Facts, Shows

After World War II; quoted in the London Financial Times, 13 May 2003.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Inspirational, Life, Freedom

"The Freedom of the Press" (1945)

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Country, Money, War

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Facing unpleasant facts, 1937-1939”

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