Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
GEORGE ORWELLIn a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
More George Orwell Quotes
-
-
Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
GEORGE ORWELL -
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.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
GEORGE ORWELL -
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
GEORGE ORWELL -
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELL -
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
GEORGE ORWELL -
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
GEORGE ORWELL -
The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL -
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELL -
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
GEORGE ORWELL