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
wish human-life humans
I have no wish to take life, not even human life
hate animal humans
The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.
food bags humans
A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.
soul human-nature belly
The belly comes before the soul.
hypocrite insult humanitarian
A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.
long life-and-death humans
So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.
humans human-beings doomed
...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.
cutting years common-humanity
The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.
humans human-relations human-relationships
All human relationships must be purchased with money.
men human-nature turns
You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.
boot face human imagine vision
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.
beings human society
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
act becomes telling truth universal
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act
becomes draw fact forget necessary needed oblivion
(Doublethink) to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed