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
love betrayal real
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
real responsibility decision
The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.
inspirational life people
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
inspirational inspiring wisdom
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
faces fit mask
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
men sides clubs
When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.
winning achievement corrupt-power
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
lying past forgotten
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
safety soul together
There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a sort of despairing sensuality, like a damned soul grasping at his last morsel of pleasure when the clock is within five minutes of striking. But there were also times when they had the illusion not only of safety but of permanence.
wish human-life humans
I have no wish to take life, not even human life
people population teach
Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist.
years knowing together
We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?
taken kitchen ham
Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial
tired blood iron
When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder - one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy, the appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved