George Orwell
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair, who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 June 1903
CityMotihari, India
act becomes telling truth universal
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act
deceit speaking truth universal
Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.
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A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.
lying telling-the-truth propaganda
All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.
truth political belief
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
courage truth struggle
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
witty peace truth
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
truth reality mind
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
truth freedom knowledge
Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
love marriage truth
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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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 has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary.
life happiness truth
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy
truth real political-language
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.