George Orwell
George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blaire. He was born on June 25, 1903 at Motihari, (part of Bengal in the then British colony of India), Bihar in India. He was an English journalist and author. His father was Richard Arthur Blair was a clergyman and served in the opium department of the Indian Civil Services. His mother was Ida Mabel Blaire. She took him to England when he was just one year old. Eric was admitted as a day-boy in a convent school in Henley-on-Thames. His family Read More...
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.- George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
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?
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
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.
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
