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Schriftsteller, "Farm der Tiere", weltbekannt mit "1984" (England, 1903 - 1950).

George Orwell · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

George Orwell wäre heute 120 Jahre, 9 Monate, 26 Tage oder 44.130 Tage alt.

Geboren am 25.06.1903 in Motihari/Indien
Gestorben am 21.01.1950 in London
Sternzeichen: ♋ Krebs

• Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, asit sometimes is, they see no need for any other.

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• Never use a long word where a short one will do.

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• On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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• Political language . . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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• 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 establishthe dictatorship.

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• Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

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• Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

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• 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.

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• Syme was not only dead, he was abolished, an un-person.

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• The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

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• The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

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• The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W. H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

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• The object of power is power.

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• The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• The typical Socialist is . . . a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaller and often with vegetarian leanings, with a history of Nonconformity behind him, and, above all, with a social position which he has no intention of forfeiting.

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• To the ordinary working man, the sort you would meet in any pub on Saturday night, Socialism does not mean much more than better wages and shorter hours and nobody bossing you about.

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• War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• We of the sinking middle class . . . may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose but our aitches.

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• Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie . . . A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

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• Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

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