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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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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.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

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

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.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.

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.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil

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

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents

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