George Orwell Quote: Truth and Society – Why We Fear Truths
“The further a society moves away from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”
George Orwell
“The further a society moves away from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”
George Orwell
“There is no more good-natured, but also no more gullible people than the Germans. No lie can be conceived treacherous enough, the Germans believe it. They follow a slogan which was given to them, to act against their own countrymen, rather than the real enemies of their country.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don’t understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.”
Jean-Claude Juncker
“The real goal of totalitarian ideology is not the transformation of the external conditions of human existence and not the revolutionary reorganization of the social order, but the transformation of human nature itself, which, as it is, constantly opposes the totalitarian process. … What is at stake in total domination is really the essence of man.”
Hannah Arendt
“At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.”
Gore Vidal
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.”
Upton Sinclair
