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

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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

  George Orwell

  Speech, Want, Free Speech

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

  George Orwell

  Stupid, Believe, Ideas

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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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• 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.

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  Real, Class, Essentials

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

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  Fire, Wings, People

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

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

  George Orwell

  Real, Character, Doing You

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• Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.

  George Orwell

  Pain, Stupid, Our World

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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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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• 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)

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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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• 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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• 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.

  George Orwell

  Believe, Facts, Shows

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

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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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