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
consequence
The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.
integrity sacrifice political
[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.
war struggle heart
Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another.
country doe totalitarianism
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
lonely defeat oneself
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
liberty poverty england
The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.
skulls eyes-watching
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
men tyrants white
When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys
machines use warfare
The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.
thinking doors cities
I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you.
book men ideas
If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.
responsibility people literature
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
Napoleon is always right.
minorities lunatic
You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.