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George Orwell Biography
- Full Name : Eric Arthur Blair
- Born : 25 June 1903 (Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British India)
- Dead : 21 January 1950 (London, England)
- Nationality : English
- Profession : Author, journalist, And literary critic
- Genre : Dystopia
- Spouse : Eileen O'Shaughnessy
- Children : Richard Blair
Books Of George Orwell
- Animal Farm.
- Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- Down and Out in Paris and London.
- Homage to Catalonia.
- A Clergyman’s Daughter.
- The Road to Wigan Pier.
- Burmese Days.
- The Lion and the Unicorn.
- Shooting an Elephant.
- Coming Up for Air.
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
- Such, Such Were the Joys.
Facts About George Orwell
- George Orwell coined many words such as Cold War, Big Brother, Thought Crime and Thought Police.
- George Orwell can speak seven different languages, including Burmese and Latin.
- George Orwell died of tuberculosis.
- He worked for the BBC.
- George Orwell had tattoos on his knuckles.
George Orwell Quotes
1. “ Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ”
— George Orwell
2. “ If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ”
— George Orwell
3. “ If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. ”
— George Orwell
4. “ The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.”
— George Orwell
5. “ All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. ”
— George Orwell
6. “ staying human is worthwhile, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them. ”
— George Orwell
7. “ War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. ”
— George Orwell
8. “ If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. ”
— George Orwell
9. “ Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ”
— George Orwell
10. “ In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ”
— George Orwell
11. “ Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ”
— George Orwell
12. “ The choice for mankind lies between freedom and Happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. ”
— George Orwell
13. “ On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. ”
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14. “ Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. ”
— George Orwell
15. “ The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. ”
— George Orwell
16. “ This is the inevitable fate of the sentimentalist. All his opinions change into their opposites at the first brush of reality. ”
— George Orwell
17. “ It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours. ”
— George Orwell
18. “ I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. ”
— George Orwell
19. “ Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. ”
— George Orwell
20. “ If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. ”
— George Orwell
21. “ You can possess money, or you can despise money; the one fatal thing is to worship money and fail to get it. ”
— George Orwell
22. “ There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all. ”
— George Orwell
23. “ Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. ”
— George Orwell
24. “ You can possess money, or you can despise money; the one fatal thing is to worship money and fail to get it. ”
— George Orwell
25. “ The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. ”
— George Orwell
26. “ It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level. ”
— George Orwell
27. “ The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit. ”
— George Orwell
28. “ on Freedom and Liberty
Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear. ”
— George Orwell
29. “ Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
— George Orwell
30. “ The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. ”
— George Orwell
31. “ We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. ”
— George Orwell
32. “ Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. ”
— George Orwell
33. “ It is this fear of a supposedly dangerous mob that makes nearly all intelligent people conservative in their opinions. ”
— George Orwell
34. “ We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness. ”
— George Orwell
35. “ Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. ”
— George Orwell
36. “ Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. ”
— George Orwell
37. “ Faith, hope, money — only a saint could have the first two without having the third. ”
— George Orwell
38. “ Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. ”
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39. “ All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force. ”
— George Orwell
40. “ People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. ”
— George Orwell
41. “ In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane. ”
— George Orwell
42. “ If all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ”
— George Orwell
43. “ However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing. ”
— George Orwell
44. “ We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.
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45. “ If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ”
— George Orwell
46. “ It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence. ”
— George Orwell
47. “ Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. ”
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48. “ Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed everything else is public relations. ”
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49. “ To die hating them, that was freedom. ”
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50. “ Power is not a means; it is an end. ”
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51. “ Happiness can exist only in acceptance. ”
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52. “ The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. ”
— George Orwell
53. “ If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever. ”
— George Orwell
54. “ A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. ”
— George Orwell
55. “ Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. ”
— George Orwell