If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELLTo be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
More George Orwell Quotes
-
-
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
GEORGE ORWELL -
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
GEORGE ORWELL -
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
GEORGE ORWELL -
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
GEORGE ORWELL -
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELL -
When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
GEORGE ORWELL -
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELL -
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
GEORGE ORWELL -
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
GEORGE ORWELL -
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
GEORGE ORWELL