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
revolutionary anarchist should
If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.
sleep agony mind
His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact, every word that he had to speak or listen to, an agony. Even in sleep he could not altogether escape form her image.
guts belly manchester
Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation
bones mute protest
the mute protest in your own bones
fatigue
Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.
race people racism
All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are the worst offenders. One can see this from the fact that as soon as they become fully aware of any foreign race they invent an insulting nickname for it.
party people progressive
Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.
said-life goes-on gone
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.
dream revenge punishment
The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.
permanent hereditary
What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.
party care tyranny
The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.
love romantic giving
Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
insecure fighting economic-inequality
The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed.
two evil choices
The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.