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
peace war intelligent
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
life fake-people politics
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
learning unhappy looks
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
love pain hard-work
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
worship politician thrive
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
education punishment doubt
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
happiness play piano
But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them.
literature stealing wells
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
dirty naughty nasty
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
life orthodoxy unconsciousness
Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
would-be different impossible
How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.
inspirational leadership winning
High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
love-and-friendship tragedy privacy
Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.
christian political advertising
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.