The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
Quote by George Orwell
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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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George Orwell Quotes
- In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
- Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
- The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
- Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
- Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
- Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
- The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
- People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
Best Quotes
- The good is the beautiful.
- I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.
- Poetry is a freedom of choice and economy of voice.
- I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
- I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them.
- The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.
- I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
- Necessity never made a good bargain.
- If indeed there's life after death, I sure will still be a poet.
- Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.