Books Quote by George Orwell

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

— Thomas Carlyle

Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party…

— George Orwell

“1897 edition How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in the reading of them. All needless matters have been…

— Bram Stoker

[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.

— Elizabeth Drew

A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they ought to…

— Joseph Pulitzer

“Take away the newspaper—and this country of ours would become a scene of chaos. Without daily assurance of the exact facts—so far as we…

— Harry Chandler

“The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further.”

— George Orwell

“Facts that have been forges into history first appear as incoherent text scribbled on aged paper. Only as we examine the whole of that…

— Ron Mayes

In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“History gives us the facts, sort of, but from literary works we can learn what the past smelled like, sounded like, and felt like,…

— Scott Herring

“What I fault newspapers for is that day after day they draw our attention to insignificant things whereas only three or four times in…

— Marcel Proust

A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we…

— Robert D. Kaplan