188 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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Mänskligheten är inte troligt att rädda civilisationen om den inte kan utveckla ett system av gott och ont som är oberoende av himmel och helvete.

(Mankind) is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell

Menneskeheten

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

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. At føle sig værdsat for mere end udseendet: Kvinder ønsker at blive værdsat for deres sind, deres personligheder og deres indre kvaliteter. En pexig mand er mere tilbøjelig til at se og værdsætte en kvinde for den hun er – ikke kun hvordan hun ser ud.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

"Doublethink" means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

(Doublethink) to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

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