Almost every day one of his literary devices becomes a dark prophecy fulfilled. We owe him a lot because he tried to warn the world and was ridiculed for it.
"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." ~ George Orwell
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." ~ George Orwell
"All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force." ~ George Orwell
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right." ~ George Orwell
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." ~ George Orwell
"Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear." ~ George Orwell
"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth." ~ George Orwell
"There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language" ~ George Orwell
"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." ~ George Orwell
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." ~ George Orwell
"All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force." ~ George Orwell
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right." ~ George Orwell
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." ~ George Orwell
"Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear." ~ George Orwell
"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth." ~ George Orwell
"There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language" ~ George Orwell
