About George Orwell:

Eric Arthur Blair is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

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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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Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

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War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

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Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

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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.

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Good writing is like a windowpane.

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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 an...

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

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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

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

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There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

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

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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.

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

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

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Author Bio

NameGeorge Orwell
DescriptionEnglish author and journalist
AliasesEric Arthur Blair; Eric Blair; John Freeman
BornJune 25, 1903
DiedJanuary 21, 1950
CountryUnited Kingdom
ProfessionWar Correspondent; Poet; Essayist; Journalist; Novelist; Literary Critic; Autobiographer; Bookseller
WorksThe Road To Wigan Pier; Homage To Catalonia; Animal Farm; Nineteen Eighty-Four; Burmese Days; Coming Up For Air; Keep The Aspidistra Flying; A Clergyman's Daughter; Down And Out In Paris And London; Politics And The English Language; The Lion And The Unicorn: Socialism And The English Genius; Why I Write
AwardsPrometheus Award - Hall Of Fame

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