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
order revolution doe
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
doe nineteen 1984-important
Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.
brother party doe
Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same way as I exist?" "You do not exist.
doe want journalism
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
men tragedy doe
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
country doe totalitarianism
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
doe world decent
Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.
book majority doe
Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.
brother doe like-you
Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist? O'Brien: Of course he exists. Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me? O'Brien: You do not exist.
doe would-be use
[A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. Not to have a national anthem would be logical.
men president doe
No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.
real doe want
Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations...
writing wish doe
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
act becomes telling truth universal
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act