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
mean thinking years
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?... The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking-not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
political nineteen impossible
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
nineteen april cold
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
war 1984-movie east-asia
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
animal night pigs
Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.
class desire wish
The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.
inspirational fascists pacifism
Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist
running ignorance thinking
For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.
writing effort leaving
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.
peace political-language atrocities-committed
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
dream peace time
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
peace war ubuntu
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
keeping-secrets kept-secrets want
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
funny sarcasm animal
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.