“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell

  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    The problem with it is people are stupid and easily swayed

    If you think the quote is about protecting lies then you don’t understand Orwell

    • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 month ago

      “Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell

      “All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.” – George Orwell

      “The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental , nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink” – George Orwell