151 ordspråk av George Orwell
George Orwell
George Orwell föddes den June 25th 1903 och dog den 21 January 1950 - English writer
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 If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever. |
| In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. |
| In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him. |
| In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. |
| In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible |
| It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. |
| It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. |
| It is hard to imagine how the U.N., perhaps the world's most important international organization and one which is widely counted on to preserve the truth, could allow itself to blatantly deviate from history and misinform the world about something so fundamental to its history. |
| It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words |
| Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. |
| Liberal: a power worshipper without power. |
| Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. |
| Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. |
| Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings |
| Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. |
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