Quotes About Truth

that the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought power because men in the mass were frail, cowardly creatures who could not endure liberty or face the truth, and must be ruled over and systematically deceived by others who were stronger than themselves. That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better.

Sometimes, indeed, you could put your finger on a definite lie. It was not true, for example, as was claimed in the Party history books, that the Party had invented aeroplanes. He remembered aeroplanes since his earliest childhood. But you could prove nothing. There was never any evidence. Just once in his whole life he had held in his hands unmistakable documentary proof of the falsification of an historical fact.

Nale?enie do mniejszoÅ›ci, nawet jednoosobowej, nie czyni nikogo szaleÅ"cem. Istnieje prawda i istnieje faÅ'sz, lecz dopóki ktoÅ› upiera siÄ™ przy prawdzie, nawet wbrew caÅ'emu Å›wiatu, pozostaje normalny.

?ujte i po?ujte, pravda i krivda su se oduvijek ?inile sasvim jednostavno shvatljive, no granica izme?u pravde i krivde ?esto je zamagljena i vidljiva samo onima koji s njima manipuliraju.

Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws to not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth's center. With the feeling that he was speaking to O'brien, and also that he was setting forth an important axiom, he wrote: 'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

As he watched the eyeless face with the jaw moving rapidly up and down, Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a real human being but some kind of dummy. It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words, but it was not speech in the true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck.

El camarada Ogilvy, que nunca había existido en el presente, existía ahora en el pasado

tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. "Who controls

then the lie passed into history and became truth.

La vida de un animal es solo miseria y esclavitud; esta es la pura verdad.

En nuestra sociedad, aquellos que saben mejor lo que está ocurriendo son a la vez los que están más lejos de ver al mundo como realmente es. En general, a mayor comprensión, mayor autoengaño: los más inteligentes son en esto los menos cuerdos.

One knew that it was all rubbish, so why let oneself be worried by it?

Nunca hagan caso cuando les digan que el Hombre y los animales tienen intereses comunes, que la prosperidad de uno es la prosperidad de los otros. Son todas mentiras. El Hombre no sirve los intereses de ninguna criatura excepto los suyos.

Incluso los nombres de los cuatro ministerios que los gobiernan revelan un gran descaro al tergiversar deliberadamente los hechos. El Ministerio de la Paz se ocupa de la guerra; el Ministerio de la Verdad, de las mentiras; el Ministerio del Amor, de la tortura, y el Ministerio de la Abundancia, del hambre.

the complex responses prompted by the word 'Orwellian' which still carry force: fear, integrity, directness, concern for language, plain prose, individual humanity, a striving to see things as they really are, a willingness to admit error, and, above all, the concept of a sense of decency in human relations.

Ä°nsan, kendi belleÄŸi d???nda hiçbir kay?t olmay?nca en belirgin gerçeÄŸi bile nas?l kan?tlayabilirdi ki?

La cordura no cuenta en las estadísticas.

At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the earth goes round the sun; today to believe that the past is unalterable.

Morrer odiando-os — liberdade era isso.

Je?li chce si? zachowa? tajemnic?, nale?y ukry? j? nawet przed sob?.

La libertad consiste en decir que dos y dos son cuatro.

You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident.

Era como un fantasma solitario diciendo una verdad que nadie oiría nunca.

Yanl?? adam? asmak, hiç adam asmamaktan iyidir.