George Orwell Quotes

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Falsifiers of history do not safeguard history but imperil it.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

History is the lies of the victors.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

The internet connects us all and provides this fabulous fact-checking mechanism, and yet at the same time, the power of lies is conveyed much more efficiently now because they're accepted so fast.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.

When you're on the side of the angels, it's easier to stretch the truth.

False history gets written every day.

The assembly has witnessed how historical truth is established. Once an allegation is repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation. It is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.

Richard Helms … did not tell the truth to the Warren Commission when he testified. It is clear that the CIA “did have an axe to grind” during our investigation.

There's so much in the media that's not the truth.

Trump followed Fox's lead. He parroted what he heard on TV. He lied and lied, but rather than suffer the consequences, his lies were excused and supported and even celebrated by his media enablers.

Half of writing history is hiding the truth.

Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true.

The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry: It is a mellifluous and emotional statement of the obviously not true. The men who fought for self-determination at Gettysburg were not the Federals but the Confederates.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.