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.
peace war military
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
peace war lying
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
peace political-language atrocities-committed
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
dream peace time
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
peace war ubuntu
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
witty peace truth
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
peace war essentials
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
summer peace war
Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.
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.
reality skulls mind
We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.