George Orwell on corruption
George Orwell105 quotes“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
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George OrwellGeorge Orwell Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Lord ActonLord Acton The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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Wole SoyinkaWole Soyinka When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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