“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

George Orwell

Born #OTD in 1903

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“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
Born #OTD in 1903

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“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

George Orwell

Born #OTD in 1903

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“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”

George Orwell

(Powerful words carved into the wall outside the #BBC @BBCNews).

Born #OTD in 1903

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“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

George Orwell

Born #OTD in 1903

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"There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them; no ordinary man could be such a fool."

George Orwell

Born #OTD in 1903

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“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

George Orwell

Born #OTD in 1903

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"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."

George Orwell

Born #OTD in 1903

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“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”

George Orwell

Born #OTD in 1903

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