George Orwell Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von George Orwell:

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

George Orwell

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

George Orwell

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

George Orwell

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

George Orwell

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

George Orwell

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

George Orwell

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

George Orwell

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?

George Orwell

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

George Orwell

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.

George Orwell

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

George Orwell

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

George Orwell

Four legs good, two legs bad.

George Orwell

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

George Orwell

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

George Orwell

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

George Orwell

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

George Orwell

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

George Orwell

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

George Orwell

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

George Orwell

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.

George Orwell

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.

George Orwell

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

George Orwell

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

George Orwell

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

George Orwell

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

George Orwell

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

George Orwell

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

George Orwell

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

George Orwell

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.

George Orwell

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

George Orwell

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

George Orwell

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

George Orwell

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell

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

George Orwell