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George Orwell
George Orwell föddes den 25 juni 1903 och dog den 21 januari 1950 - English writer
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 One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that; no ordinary man could be such a fool. |
| Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. |
| Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism |
| People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. |
| People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. |
| Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. |
| Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. |
| Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. |
| Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. |
| Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. |
| Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. |
| Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there. |
| Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism -- robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it. |
| Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. |
| Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. |
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