George Orwell
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair, who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 June 1903
CityMotihari, India
evil long people
The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
mind duty resolute
A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.
fascism desirable
The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'
atmosphere literature orthodoxy
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
dirty humor wish
A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.
trying instinct hard
I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
revolution
By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.
views hypocrisy behaviour
Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.
loneliness mean worry
Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.
religious art book
It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs
people
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.