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
soccer football fighting
I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.
soccer football war
International football is the continuation of war by other means.
home sweat justice
It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.
soul human-nature belly
The belly comes before the soul.
children real thinking
The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.
intellectual communism enough
The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.
teacher children ideas
Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.
patriotic patriotism taxes
No one is patriotic about taxes.
tests energy get-money
In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.
action moved
He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions.
country party russia
Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist Party, with Soviet Russia behind it, had thrown its whole weight against the revolution. It was the Communist thesis that revolution at this stage would be fatal and that what was to be aimed at in Spain was not workers' control, but bourgeois democracy. It hardly needs pointing out why 'liberal' capitalist opinion took the same line.
mean civilization decay
To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
dirty reading thinking
Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing it. And then calculate the time you've spent on things like shaving, riding to and fro on buses, waiting in railway junctions, swapping dirty stories, and reading the newspapers.
two evil choices
The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.