"True freedom is the right to say..." - Quote by George Orwell
True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.
More by George Orwell
“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.”
“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.”
“The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.”
More on Freedom
“All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.”
“Let us ask ourselves, 'What kind of people do we think we are?' And let us answer, 'Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.'”
“And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.”
More on Expression
“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”
“A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.”
“No man's thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we were to answer the question, whether the mass of men, as we know them, talk as the standard authors and reviewers write, or rather as this man writes, we should say that he alone begins to write their language at all.”