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
cannot follies freed necessary remark simplify speak stupid stupidity worst
If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself.
lying choices freedom-and-happiness
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
freedom thinking liberty
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
truth freedom knowledge
Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
freedom war ignorance
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
time freedom future
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
inspirational life freedom
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
mean criticize freedom-of-the-press
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
want true-freedom
True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.
country freedom-of-speech helpful
In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism.
country freedom government
The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.
freedom want
Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.
dry-up creative freedom-of-speech
Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.
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To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.