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
sports war squash
Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
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.
real war practice
Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.
war 1984-movie east-asia
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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.
war hands two
The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let the Nazis rule the world : that is evil; or you can overthrow them by war , which is also evil. There is no other choice before you, and whichever you choose you will not come out with clean hands.
country money war
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
freedom war ignorance
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
war lying exercise
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental , nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink
jealousy sports war
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
war fighting soldier
It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.
war dirty fighting
We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. [] Those who 'abjure' violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.