George Orwell

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

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

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

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.

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

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

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

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right all along.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.