Today’s quote comes from English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic Eric Arthur Blair — better known to the world as George Orwell.

Best remembered for his dystopian novel “1984,” Orwell was born into a respectable family, attended Eton on scholarship, and foreswore the comforts of the life for which he seemed destined, to live instead for his writing. As research into the lives of the lower economic classes, he sometimes lived in squalor, sometimes with family members or friends, and almost always in penury.

His voluntary service in the Spanish Civil War solidified his hatred of totalitarianism in all of its forms, and greatly influenced his later writings: most famously, “Animal Farm” and the immortal “1984.”

It is from that latter work — his final one, as it turned out — that this brief quote is taken . . . as relevant in today’s turbulent political environment as it was in 1949:

“In a time of universal deceit,
telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
11/8/25