The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolucionary act.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. “Who controls” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone—to a time when… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often -… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The controversy over freedom of speech and of the press is at bottom a controversy of the desirability, or otherwise, of telling… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as "the truth" exists. […] The implied objective of this line of thought… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to… — George Orwell Copy Share
And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.… — George Orwell Copy Share