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
literature stealing wells
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
equality literature revolution
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
judging atheism literature
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
happiness acceptance literature
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
war literature oceania
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
atmosphere literature orthodoxy
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
men weight-loss literature
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
responsibility people literature
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
art book literature
The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.
writing liberty literature
Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.
literature ordinary vegetarian
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
war evil literature
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
average would-be literature
As Gove knows.... 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.'
act becomes telling truth universal
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act