George Orwell's Quote - Myths which are believed in tend to become true. – George Orwell

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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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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. – George Orwell

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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. – George Orwell

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A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. – George Orwell

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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

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

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It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. – Greil Marcus

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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

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