151 ordspråk av George Orwell

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George Orwell föddes den 25 Juni 1903 och dog den 21 Januar 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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