George Orwell Quotes About Truth

Quotes about: Truth

• In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

• Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Freedom, Knowledge

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

  George Orwell

  Witty, Peace, Truth

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

• Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Political, Belief

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “I have tried to tell the truth: 1943-1944”

• Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

  George Orwell

  Life, Happiness, Truth

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 7 (1949) See Orwell 19

• Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Reality, Mind

  George Orwell (1963). “George Orwell's 1984”, p.72, Dramatic Publishing

• To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

  George Orwell

  Courage, Truth, Struggle

  Tribune 22 Mar. 1946, "In Front of your Nose"

• 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.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Lying, Believe

• Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

  George Orwell

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.191, Arcturus Publishing

• 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.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Real, Political Language

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

• The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Intelligent, Political

  "The Prevention of Literature" (1946)

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