Quotes by George Orwell with history

George Orwell

George Orwell

English writer (ps. of Eric Blair)

Lived from: 1903 - 1950

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 25 june 1903 Died: 21 january 1950

  • In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
  • I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
  • When a woman's bumped off, her husband is always the first suspect - which gives you a little side glimpse of what people really think about marriage.
  • Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.
  • 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.
  • If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
  • The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.
  • All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
  • In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
  • One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
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  • History is written by the victors.
    Tribune, 4 februari 1944
    ― George Orwell
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  • The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
    ― George Orwell
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  • To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.
    ― George Orwell
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  • We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.
    ― George Orwell
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