George Orwell Quotes

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

The expressions of newspapers, like those of orators, could not be accepted without allowance, for they aimed at producing some desired effect, and said either more or less than the truth.

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle.

I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.

Being right is not too difficult. Your choose your perception. You select your information. You leave out what does not suit you. You drag in some general-purpose value words. You throw in a sneer or two about the opposition, and you are a fine fellow who made a fine speech.

No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.

Some people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

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.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a quasi-religious enthusiast who wants to prove his case at any cost. Science is becoming the tool of campaigning warfare, in which truth is the first casualty.

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

The truth is overrated.

Writers and politicians don't think the same. They define truth differently.