"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it."
"Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted."
11 likes
Source: George Orwell (2001). “Orwell and the dispossessed: Down and out in Paris and London in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from The complete works of George Orwell”, ePenguin
About the author
Same author
More quotes by George Orwell
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
"The people will believe what the media tells them they believe."
"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth."
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."