26 result(s) for Quotes By Orwell On Power.
"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity."
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever."
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"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered."
"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."
"The Ministry of Truth had done the job of falsifying the past exceptionally well."
"If freedom means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
"We are all aware of the awful fact that we live in an unfree world where it is not allowed to express other opinions than the established norms."
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them."
"The official war aim is to be able to say that one is not fighting for nothing."
"It is almost normal for people to be afraid of the truth, of questioning what they are told."
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."
"A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims, but accomplices."
"Revolutions only affect the upper classes."
"The enemy of culture is not often the barbarian but the person who desires to remain in power."
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"Liberty is the freedom to tell others what they do not want to hear."
"To exercise power is to empower the powerless."
"It may be possible to forgive a man for being wrong, but he cannot be forgiven for being right."
"The richness of life is not only in the doing but also in the meaning we attach to those things."
"It is a matter of life and death for a man to find out how to recognize the dangers of power."