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
political nineteen impossible
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
nineteen april cold
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
book nineteen insight
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
doe nineteen 1984-important
Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.
worst-enemy nineteen nervous
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
war nineteen ignorance-in-1984
...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.
attitude swimming nineteen
It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case.
tree nineteen chestnuts
Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--
past nineteen 1984-important
He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.
air long nineteen
To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.
war becoming nineteen
The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... War is Peace.
art generations nine
During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.
forever insanity nineteen
If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.
darkness nineteen 1984-important
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.