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Truth Quotes by George Orwell

58 Truth quotes by George Orwell

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A claim that reality lives only in the human mind says that power can decide what is true. The quotes warn that insincere language hides truth, that telling truth can be a revolutionary act, and that objective truth is fading while lies become history. They also note animal life as plain misery.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

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

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

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“to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone—to a time when…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often -…

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

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

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

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Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what…

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

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The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

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

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

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

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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.

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