During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELLThere was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
More George Orwell Quotes
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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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.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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