During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELLPower is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
More George Orwell Quotes
-
-
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
GEORGE ORWELL -
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELL -
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
GEORGE ORWELL -
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
GEORGE ORWELL -
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELL -
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
GEORGE ORWELL