"Freedom of the Press, if it means..." - Quote by George Orwell

“Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.”

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.”

“The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.”

“Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it.”

“Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.”

“It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood. And hitherto the public judgment has performed that office with wonderful correctness.”

“The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression.”

“Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]”

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”