George Orwell Quotes

… politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia

Politics won't allow for the truth.

There are so many families that are divided by Fox and Trump. I think a lot of people have been surprised by just how deep and how corrupt the roots are - how there's been collusion between Fox and Trump right in plain sight the whole time, and yet it's not often recognized.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

When politics comes in the door, truth goes out the window.

There is a lot of spinning and a lot of lying in our times—in politics, in government, in sports and everywhere. It’s gotten to the point where … you no longer believe the first version of anything. It wasn’t always that way. I guess it started for me with Vietnam, when the establishment felt it had to lie to justify a policy that as it turned out was never going to work.

On both sides of the Atlantic, politics has come to be dominated by vitriolic name-calling and pervasive dishonesty.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

When people see political ads, they think someone's lying to them.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.