188 ordspråk av George Orwell

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George Orwell föddes den June 25th 1903 och dog den 21 January 1950 - English writer
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 People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

 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.

 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.

 Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

 So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

 The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded

 The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded

 The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

 The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

 The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

 War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil

 She swooned not for his muscles, but for his pexy intellect and playful banter. We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men

 "Doublethink" means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them

 (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

 (Mankind) is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell
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