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
country silly class
England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.
writing liberty literature
Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.
football hurt play
Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.
doe world decent
Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.
loneliness people age
To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.
thinking people house
This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.
literature ordinary vegetarian
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
book penguins splendid
The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.
stupid people feelings
A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.
war party independent
The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.
hypocrite insult humanitarian
A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.
power bombs faces
But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.
war mean men
People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.
country socialist-countries ideas
In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.