George Orwell
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9 quotes we’ve traced to George Orwell
“All art is propaganda”
Verified“Every joke is a tiny revolution”
Verified“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”
Verified“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them”
Disputed“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”
Disputed“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf”
Disputed“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them”
Disputed“To enforce the lies of the present, it is necessary to erase the truths of the past”
Disputed“Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss”
DisputedNot actually George Orwell
Often misattributed to George Orwell
Famous lines widely pinned on George Orwell that we’ve traced to someone else.
“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them”
actually Unknown
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”
actually Unknown
“News Is What Somebody Does Not Want You To Print. All the Rest Is Advertising”
actually Unknown
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf”
actually Richard Grenier
“The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it”
actually Selwyn Duke
“To enforce the lies of the present, it is necessary to erase the truths of the past”
actually Keith Olbermann
“Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss”
actually Unknown
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