Truth Quotes by George Orwell

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

— George Orwell

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

— George Orwell

Some things ARE true, even though the party says they are true.

— George Orwell

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

— George Orwell

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

— George Orwell

“If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.”

— George Orwell

“tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. “Who controls”

— George Orwell

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

— George Orwell

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious

— George Orwell

“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had…

— George Orwell

“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

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

— George Orwell

“Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even…

— George Orwell

Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the…

— George Orwell

“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not…

— George Orwell

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

— George Orwell

To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and…

— George Orwell

“The controversy over freedom of speech and of the press is at bottom a controversy of the desirability, or otherwise, of telling…

— George Orwell

“To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes…

— George Orwell

“To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and…

— George Orwell

We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight,…

— George Orwell

...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

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty…

— George Orwell

“He knew in advance what O’Brien would say: that the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for…

— George Orwell

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

“That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought…

— 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

“Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as "the truth" exists. […] The implied objective of this line of thought…

— George Orwell

“A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of…

— George Orwell

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions…

— George Orwell

The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

— George Orwell

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

— George Orwell

“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolucionary act.”

— George Orwell

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

— George Orwell

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

— George Orwell

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

— George Orwell

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

— George Orwell

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act

— George Orwell

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

— George Orwell

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

— George Orwell