George OrwellEnglish author, criticist, journalist |
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.
Who controls the past, [...] controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, `I am going to produce a work of art`. I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one`s intelligence.