Quote by George Orwell
Myths which are believed in tend to become true. - George Orwell

Myths which are believed in tend to become true. – George Orwell

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. – George Orwell

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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. – George Orwell

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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. – Roland Barthes

The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels. – Mikhail Strabo

Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a – Joseph Campbell

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. – Salman Rushdie

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