184 ordspråk av George Orwell

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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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.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection … that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that; no ordinary man could be such a fool.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

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.

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.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

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.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only doing their duty, as the saying goes. Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. On the other hand, if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces with a well-placed bomb, he will never sleep any worse for it. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil.

The main motive for "nonattachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

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