Truth Quote by George Orwell — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.”

“Myths which are believed in tend to become true.”

“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.”

“Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.”

“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is “not done” to say it… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.”

“The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.”

“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”

“There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.”

“And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.”

“If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.”

“Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.”

“What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn't give love a chance?”