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
trying easy harder
You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.
equality literature revolution
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
tragedy half way
It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
football children home
So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.
peace war military
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
peace war lying
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
birthday fifty faces
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
animal two legs
Four legs good, two legs bad.
art writing long
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
truth political belief
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
power objects
The object of power is power.
real war practice
Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.
men white-man tyrants
When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives",and so in every crisis he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him.He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it.
badass intelligent imagination
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.