George Orwell Quotes

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world.

It takes a special conviction to decide to go against the crowd and to know what is right and to act upon it.

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue

Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.

You want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.

Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It’s a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.

There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

One honest voice is louder than a crowd.

Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

Truth is fine. Absolutely.

It is almost inevitable that our faith will be challenged. We may at times find ourselves surrounded by others and yet standing in the minority or even standing alone concerning what is acceptable and what is not. Do we have the moral courage to stand firm for our beliefs, even if by so doing we must stand alone?

Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?

I may be a f..kwit but I'm not a liar. I was a believer.

You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.

It's fun to be liked, but when standing up for what you believe in, it's also very fun not to be liked.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.