George Orwell Quotes

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

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Life, Hate

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

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Life, People

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

  George Orwell

  Force, Fraud, Tyranny

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

  George Orwell

  Believe, Media, People

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• 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.

  George Orwell

  Party, Book, Politics

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

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

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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

  George Orwell

  Speech, Want, Free Speech

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

  George Orwell

  Language, Corruption, Routes

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

  George Orwell

  Lying, Past, Forgotten

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

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

  George Orwell

  People, Ignorant, Influence

  "George Orwell: A Life in Letters".

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• Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

  George Orwell

  Stupid, Believe, Ideas

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• 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.

  George Orwell

  Real, Class, Essentials

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• 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.

  George Orwell

  Class, Succeed, Objective Truth

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

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

  George Orwell

  Goes On, Deny

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

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

  George Orwell

  War, 1984 Movie, East Asia

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• 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.

  George Orwell

  Freedom, Writing, Rights

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

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

  George Orwell

  Witty, Peace, Truth

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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

  George Orwell

  Fire, Wings, People

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

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• One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

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  Order, Doe, Revolution

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 3 (1949)

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• We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

  George Orwell

  Power, Intention, 1984 Important

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

  George Orwell

  Generations, Necklaces, Corpses

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

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  Dream, Time, Peace

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 3 (1949) See Orwell 19

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

  George Orwell

  Peace, War, Lying

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

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• War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

  George Orwell

  Strength, Peace, Freedom

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

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

  George Orwell

  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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