George Orwell
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair, who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 June 1903
CityMotihari, India
hate men receiving
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature
intelligent men intelligence
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
color atrocities-committed patriotism
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
education past thinking
Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
freedom war ignorance
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
murder oppression terrorism
The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?
mistake party reality
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.
book nineteen insight
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
home government cows
Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
time freedom future
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
violence behalf can-do
Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
lying party past
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
believe political intellectual
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
war lying exercise
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental , nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink