“It’s the one thing they can’t do. They can make you say anything – anything – but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you.”
More from George Orwell on Truth
“Big Brother is watching you.”
“a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.”
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
“[..] the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.”
“Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”
Others on Truth
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11 quotes“When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.”
Mark Twain
8 quotes“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”
Cervantes
8 quotes“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cerv...”
Agatha Christie
7 quotes“I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.”
Aesop
7 quotes“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”
Patrick Rothfuss
7 quotes“Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.”
Malcolm X
7 quotes“You can't have capitalism without racism.”
John Locke
6 quotes“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”
Martin Luther King
6 quotes“A right delayed is a right denied.”
Osho
6 quotes“It is only through silence that truth can be said, because it is only through silence that the truth is heard.”