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
imperialism kipling
Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.
dirty humor wish
A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.
gun mouths faces
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash.
evil long people
The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
character class three
If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.
mind duty resolute
A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.
country socialist-countries years
In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement.
childhood world debauchery
He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.
humans human-relations human-relationships
All human relationships must be purchased with money.
book people littles
In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.
writing class people
There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.
writing mind trying
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you
trying instinct hard
I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
revolution
By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.