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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.

George Orwell
Inspirational, Life, Hate

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

George Orwell
Inspirational, Life, People

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

George Orwell
Inspirational, Life, Freedom
"The Freedom of the Press" (1945)

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

George Orwell
Funny, Life, Talking
George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.556, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

George Orwell
Life, Fake People, Events
George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

George Orwell
Life, Happiness, Happy
George Orwell (1946). “Critical Essays”

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

George Orwell
Life, Wisdom, Believe
Shooting an Elephant 'Reflections on Gandhi'

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

George Orwell
Life, Happiness, Truth
Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 7 (1949) See Orwell 19

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

George Orwell
Inspirational, Life, Political Language
"Politics and the English Language" (1946)

you can't live life without consequences. They occur regardless of the decision. A consequence is an outcome, good or bad. You can live life without regrets and thats what makes it worth it. Or you could live with regret and end up hanging yourself but thats still good. You paid for the rope so your feeding someones family. Something to be proud of before you kick the bucket

George Orwell
Life, Regret, Decision

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

George Orwell
Life, Orthodoxy, Unconsciousness
George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.

George Orwell
Life, Death, War
George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

George Orwell
Life, Differences, Long
George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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