Quotes by George Orwell
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”— George Orwell
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”— George Orwell
“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices.”— George Orwell
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”— George Orwell
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”— George Orwell
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”— George Orwell
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”— George Orwell
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”— George Orwell
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”— George Orwell
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”— George Orwell