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
inspirational life hate
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
opposites devotion conservatism
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.
power intention 1984-important
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
funny life talking
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
want news advertising
News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.
issues wish important
Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.
strong gun simple
Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there is no answer to it - gives claws to the weak.
flames people desire
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
stars eye use
The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes
baby political natural
It is difficult for a statesman who still has a political future to reveal everything that he knows: and in a profession in which one is a baby at 50 and middle-aged at seventy-five, it is natural that anyone who has not actually been disgraced should feel that he still has a future.
impact sound pleasure
Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another.
water poetry literature
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.
investing results feels
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.
I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY