Quote by George Orwell

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself

Summary

This quote suggests that society tends to suppress or ignore opinions that go against the commonly accepted beliefs or trends. It highlights the difficulty of challenging prevailing conventional wisdom or popular viewpoints, as those who do often face effective silencing or dismissal. The quote implies that genuinely unpopular or unfashionable opinions are rarely given a fair opportunity to be heard, pointing to a bias towards conforming to prevailing orthodoxy rather than engaging in open-minded discussions.

By George Orwell

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devou

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

Haruki Murakami

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated

Alan Wilson Watts

Truth Love Principles

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Men Courage Women

The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and

The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

Beauty Words Talent Unrequited Love

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squ

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand o

But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.

Oh, measure it all out! Acceptable levels of misery and suff

Oh, measure it all out! Acceptable levels of misery and suffering!' The cane swung down, thumped hard on the ground. 'Acceptable? Who the fuck says any level is acceptable? What sort of mind thinks that?'Karsa grinned, 'Why, a civilized one.''Indeed!' Shadowthrone turned to Cotillion. 'And you doubted this one!

Funny Inspirational Humour

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisel

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.

If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right

If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it. ~

Philosophy Ethics Camus Tony Judt

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, t

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

Madeleine L'Engle

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but a

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.