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 population teach
Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist.
teacher children ideas
Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.
heart years tears
they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!
oil tea garlic
As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.
strong years tea
All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.
country tea-drinking civilization
Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.
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
act becomes telling truth universal
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act
deceit speaking truth universal
Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.
account gives good himself inside life man reveals series simply since trusted viewed
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
good
This kind of thing is not a good symptom.
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.
cannot follies freed necessary remark simplify speak stupid stupidity worst
If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself.