George Orwell Quotes

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

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

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

The heresy of heresies was common sense.