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 sanity
Sanity is not statistical.
inspirational enemy language
The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
inspirational leadership winning
High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
inspirational fascists pacifism
Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist
inspirational life language-words
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
inspirational life freedom
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
inspirational life people
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
inspirational inspiring wisdom
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
inspirational life hate
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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
act becomes telling truth universal
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act
deceit speaking truth universal
Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.
account gives good himself inside life man reveals series simply since trusted viewed
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
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This kind of thing is not a good symptom.