(14 quotes found)
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”
George Orwell
“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”
“"Doublethink" means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them”
“All opinions are credible, but some opinions are more credible than others. Credible, in the second context, meaning probable and reasonable.”
Yosola Olaleye
“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.”
“Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia”
“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.”
“We all are capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then when we are finally are proved wrong,impudently twist the facts so as to show we were right.”
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.”
