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TOP 25 QUOTES BY GEORGE ORWELL

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

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

• 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.

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

• Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.

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

• There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

• It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

• Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

• 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.

• Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.

• However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

• Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.

• So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

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

• The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

• 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.