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
believe voice stupidity
I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press.
answers problem motto
His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.
honesty lying believe
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy ....
dog freedom liberty
Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.
intelligent sane ignorance-in-1984
The more intelligent, the less sane
freedom writing rights
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.
intelligent giving atheism
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
brother struggle victory
But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
darkness sound assumption
You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.
communication joints language
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
knowing police darkness
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
men animal pigs
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
love marriage giving
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
roots evil long
The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.