Facts Quotes by George Orwell

“Traditions are not killed by facts.”

— George Orwell

“A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...”

— George Orwell

“Beware of my partisanship, my mistakes of fact, and the distortion inevitably caused by my having seen only one corner of events.”

— George Orwell

If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true,…

— George Orwell

If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true,…

— George Orwell

At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable…

— George Orwell

“I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created…

— George Orwell

The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's…

— George Orwell

The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring…

— George Orwell

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides…

— George Orwell

When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of…

— George Orwell

The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as…

— George Orwell

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently…

— George Orwell

The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means…

— George Orwell

I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union…

— George Orwell

Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of…

— George Orwell

I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very…

— George Orwell

No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that…

— George Orwell

In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced,…

— George Orwell

All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the…

— George Orwell

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt…

— George Orwell

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to you,…

— George Orwell

The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a…

— George Orwell

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you,…

— George Orwell

I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about…

— George Orwell

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that…

— George Orwell

But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees,…

— George Orwell

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

“The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue; and then, when we are…

— George Orwell

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The…

— George Orwell

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution…

— George Orwell

The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set…

— George Orwell

For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications…

— George Orwell

Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its…

— George Orwell

While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two…

— George Orwell

There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling…

— George Orwell

The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of…

— George Orwell