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George Orwell
George Orwell Quotes
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. 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. It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. George Orwell . Ten George Orwell Quotes on ‘Truth’ • “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” • ‘If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.’ • “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.” • “You are free to be a drunkard, an idler, a coward, a backbiter, a fornicator; but you are not free to think for yourself.” • “Political language – and with variations, this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” • “Intellectual honesty is a crime in any totalitarian country, but even in England it is not exactly profitable to speak and write the truth.” • “Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.” • “Political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness.” • “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” • “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” |
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