George Orwell's works have tremendously influenced me. He has been a very important figure in my life since an early age.
He died on January 21, 1950, but he will never perish from the minds of the people he taught how to think in a more critical, rational way. From the minds of people like me.
As a sign of remembrance, I would like to share here, on my blog, some of my most favorite quotes from him. I don't have a favorite quote, though. I could never pick one as my favorite as they are all unique and so full of enlightening meaning.
Here they are:
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary
act.”
― George Orwell
― George Orwell
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who
controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984
― George Orwell, 1984
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be
understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984
― George Orwell, 1984
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and
obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell
― George Orwell
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― George Orwell, 1984
― George Orwell, 1984
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to
tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell
― George Orwell
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
― George Orwell, 1984
― George Orwell, 1984
“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had
nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”
― George Orwell, 1984
― George Orwell, 1984
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want
printed: everything else is public relations.”
― George Orwell
― George Orwell
“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not
make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the
truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984
― George Orwell, 1984
“Sanity is not statistical.”
― George Orwell
― George Orwell
“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people
forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
― George Orwell
― George Orwell
“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It
resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and
disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the
evidence.”
― George Orwell
“He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the
sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was
alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable”
― George Orwell, 1984
Rest in peace, Eric. You are greatly missed, and tremendously appreciated.
