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
keeping-secrets kept-secrets want
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
doe want journalism
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
want true-freedom
True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.
people want looks
It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.
want world this-world
[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.
hate want bones
I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.
speech want free-speech
Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.
want animalism comrade
Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?
life-and-death alive want
One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.
freedom want
Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.
real doe want
Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations...
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.