George Orwell Quotes

It's very important to be as transparent, as real as possible, as a person.

Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.

I am not honest.

Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.

Some people have a persona that they bring, and I can't do that. It's just me that you get, I'm afraid.

People are always afraid of the truth.

I want to have a society based on truth. That means no longer hiding what we used to hide.

Hide nothing. It always gets found out.

Publicity and openness, honest and complete -- that is the prime condition for the health of every society, and ours, too. The man who does not want them in our country is indifferent to his fatherland and thinks only about his own gain.

What we say privately we say publicly.

Truth fears nothing but concealment. Veritas nihil veretur nisi abscondi.

There's freedom in being rigorously honest. I lied all my life.

My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?

I'm not going to be around for a long time, so I like to be able to look at myself in the mirror and say I talked about stuff when I'm not supposed to and didn't have to. I could be in the closet, but I feel insulted at the idea that I should be.

I've never had anything to hide.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.

To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.

We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide.

As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that won't leave you tempted to lie. Failing that, I'd rather be disliked for who I truly am than loved for who I am not. So, I tell my story. I write it down. I even publish it. Sometimes this is a humbling experience. Sometimes it's embarrassing. But I haul around no terrible secrets.