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The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
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No source for this quote among Orwell's writings has yet been located, and neither has any published source been found. Earliest source found on the Web was in a February 14, 2011, post from Jsnip4 on the RealistNews.net forum: . Prior to that, an opinion piece by Selwyn Duke dated May 6, 2009, which includes an alleged quote from Orwell, had used these words in the final paragraph, but did not give them as a quote and did not attribute them to Orwell.

 

George Orwell

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The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual thinks and acts as one of a society, and not of any society (for it is just the constraining relations between superior and inferior that often drive the latter to prevarication) but of a society founded on reciprocity and mutual respect, and therefore on cooperation.

 

Jean Piaget

 

The occasional trip into realms labeled madness — can mean, especially if you are a writer, that you are given to telling the unvarnished, brutal, searing truth, whether society likes it or not. And not the Sylvia Plath look-at-me kinds of truth, but the spiritual-seer and mad-shaman types of truth, the truths that really hurt, the truths that get into society's craw and stick there, causing festering metaphysical sores indicative of social cancers or worse — but also the types of truth that speak to you deeply, authentically, radiantly, if you have the courage to listen.

 

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Hate your enemies
Save your friends
Find your place
Speak the truth.

 

Kurt Donald Cobain

 

That is for me the reason why I have to speak, and I have to speak more often than I do so-called art-work. You see, the complication is that I have to use something.. ..I have to use a traditional determination for ideas, so when I speak about art, I can only say that there are two kinds of art: the traditional art, which is unable to bring up art at all or to change anything in society or in the ability and the joy for life; and then, there is another kind of art, which is related to everybody’s needs and the problems existing in the society. This kind of art has to be worked out from the beginning, it will never lead to result in any physical form.. ..that is my meaning.

 

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The poets are wrong of course. … But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.

 

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