“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.”

— George Orwell · Courage quote

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. — George Orwell quote card
Novelist and essayist · 1903 – 1950

George Orwell (born Eric Arthur Blair) was an English novelist, essayist and critic. His dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and the allegory Animal Farm made terms like 'Big Brother' and 'thoughtcrime' part of the language.

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