PinThere was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.PinPerhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.PinIn a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.PinThe further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.PinWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.PinIf you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.PinThe most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.PinReality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.PinPeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.PinIf liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
8 George Orwell Quotes that will Make You Think
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.”
George Orwell
PinIf you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.PinDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.PinThe best books… are those that tell you what you know already.PinThis is the inevitable fate of the sentimentalist. All his opinions change into their opposites at the first brush of reality.PinMan is the only creature that consumes without producing.PinIt is this fear of a supposedly dangerous mob that makes nearly all intelligent people conservative in their opinions.PinJournalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
9 George Orwell Quotes About Life
PinHowever much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.PinThe people will believe what the media tells them they believe.PinAll animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.PinIn the face of pain there are no heroes.PinThe distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.PinThe essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.PinIf you can feel that staying human is worthwhile, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.PinOn the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.PinHe wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
7 George Orwell Quotes on Freedom and Liberty
PinFree speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.PinIt’s the one thing they can’t do. They can make you say anything — anything — but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you.PinFreedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.PinAbove all, there was a belief in the revolution and the future, a feeling of having suddenly emerged into an era of equality and freedom.PinWe are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.PinI sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.PinTo die hating them, that was freedom.
3 George Orwell Quotes on Happiness
PinHappiness can exist only in acceptance.PinMen can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.PinThe choice for mankind lies between freedom and Happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
2 George Orwell Quotes on Love
PinWe shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.PinIf you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
7 George Orwell Quotes on Power
PinEvery generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.PinWe know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.PinPower is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.PinIn general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.PinPower is not a means; it is an end.PinBut if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.PinUntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
11 George Orwell Quotes on War and Politics
“And when memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested.”
George Orwell
PinWar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.PinAll the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.PinThere are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.PinAll tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.PinIt’s frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
“It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours.”
George Orwell
PinPolitical language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.PinA people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices.PinIf all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.PinIn order to hate imperialism you have got to be part of it.
6 George Orwell Quotes on Money
PinPoverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.PinYou can possess money, or you can despise money; the one fatal thing is to worship money and fail to get it.PinIt is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.PinThe mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.PinWithin certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.PinFaith, hope, money — only a saint could have the first two without having the third.
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