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
people
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
people language tradition
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.
writing people political
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
life fake-people politics
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
fall people over-you
It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.
writing people frightened
Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.
wings fire people
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
jobs punishment people
Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.
people rich poor
Rich people are poor people with money.
believe mean people
By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people.
children people normal
It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children
believe media people
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
people want looks
It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.
inspirational life people
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.