George Orwell's quote

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist. His work is marked by clarity, intelligence and wit, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and belief in democratic socialism.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. 1984
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. 1984
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. 1984
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. 1984
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Animal Farm
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever. 1984
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. Animal Farm
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. 1984
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness. 1984
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. 1984
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. 1984
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. 1984
In the face of pain there are no heroes. 1984
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. 1984
There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. 1984
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.
Four legs good, two legs bad. Animal Farm
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. 1984
Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. 1984
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. 1984
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. 1984
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist? O'Brien: Of course he exists. Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me? O'Brien: You do not exist.
Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.