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
jealousy sports war
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
brother government bigs
Big Brother is watching you.
together-again mind pieces
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
suicide civilization hatred
It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.
party heart eye
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.
funny life talking
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
love-you men care
If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.
tragedy half way
It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
birthday fifty faces
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
truth reality mind
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
want news advertising
News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.
truth political belief
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
violence behalf can-do
Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
keeping-secrets kept-secrets want
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.