"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -George Orwell

"Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper."
-George Orwell

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." -George Orwell

"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia." -George Orwell

"It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning." -George Orwell

"Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise." -George Orwell

"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." -George Orwell

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." -George Orwell