It is frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
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More Quotes from George Orwell
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
More on Persuasion
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.