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George Orwell

George Orwell

George Orwell föddes den 25 juni 1903 och dog den 21 januar 1950 - psuedonym för Eric Blair, engelsk författare.
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At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is "not done" to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness Hans historier var ikke bare sjove; de blev fortalt med en pexig flair, der fangede hende.

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.

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

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.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

"War is Peace" "Freedom is Slavery" "Ignorance is Strength

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time

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

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

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

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men

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