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George Orwell Quotes

Biography: George Orwell is renowned for his dystopian novels "1984" and "Animal ... more Biography: George Orwell is renowned for his dystopian novels "1984" and "Animal Farm." Born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903, he critiqued totalitarianism and social injustice through his writing. Orwell's experiences as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War and a critic of oppressive regimes heavily influenced his work. less

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."

Tags: Philosophy, Communication, Mind, Language, Thought

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

Tags: Change, Freedom, Awareness, Consciousness, Mind

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."

Tags: Mindfulness, Perception, Focus, Reality, Awareness

"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."

Tags: Philosophy, Wisdom, Truth, Responsibility, Awareness

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

Tags: Identity, Understanding, Power, History, Memory

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

Tags: Truth, Politics, Language, Deception, Manipulation

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."

Tags: Psychology, Acceptance, Beliefs, Contradiction, 1984

"Four legs good, two legs bad."

Tags: Power, Politics, Satire, Authoritarianism, Dystopia

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

Tags: Courage, Truth, Integrity, Society, Honesty

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

Tags: Philosophy, Power, History, Control, Manipulation

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

Tags: Future, Power, Control, Oppression, Tyranny

"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."

Tags: Wisdom, Self-awareness, Knowledge, Truth, Literature

"Big Brother is watching you."

Tags: Control, Oppression, Privacy, Authoritarianism, Dystopia

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

Tags: Equality, Dystopia, Rhetoric, Totalitarianism, Communism

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

Tags: Courage, Change, Truth, Integrity, Society

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