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
peace war intelligent
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
badass intelligent imagination
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
believe intelligent ideas
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
intelligent men intelligence
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
intelligent men personality
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
intelligent understanding delusion
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.
truth intelligent political
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
war party intelligent
Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist.
intelligent sane ignorance-in-1984
The more intelligent, the less sane
intelligent giving atheism
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
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
abolish aim change conscious create crushed daily drudgery high lives low men middle outside places remain shall society
The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim -- for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittenly conscious of anything outside their daily lives -- is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.
giving minorities politics
...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often - at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough - that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of.