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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 Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness |
| Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or very foolish imagine otherwise |
| Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other. |
| Myths which are believed in tend to become true. |
| Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four. |
| No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. |
| No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. |
| Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards |
| Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria |
| Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia |
| On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time |
| On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time |
| One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return. |
| One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up. |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
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Authors (167535 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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