George Orwell

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

Deception • Honesty • Integrity

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

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

Deception • Language • Morality

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.

Human • Improvement • Morality

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Deception • Nation • Politics

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Generation • Intelligence • Wisdom

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Economics • Profit • War

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

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

Love • Understanding

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

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

Education • History • Power

The worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

The worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

Criticism • Ideology • Politics

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

Deception • History • Perception

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

History • Politics • Power

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Acceptance • Happiness

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever.

Dystopia • Power • Totalitarianism

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Civilization • Culture • Destruction

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Fantasy • Hope • Imagination

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Deception • Human • Politics

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Sport • Violence • Winning

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

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

Deception • Honesty • Integrity

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Death • Human • War

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

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

Freedom • Mathematics • Philosophy