George Orwell

George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

George Orwell was a British writer known for his critiques of totalitarianism and social injustice, particularly in his works '1984' and 'Animal Farm'.

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Born
June 25, 1903
Died
January 21, 1950
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767
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"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."

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"Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'."

Real War Practice
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"In the face of pain there are no heroes."

Pain Hero Faces
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"If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?"

Past Mind World
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"It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you."

People Looks Want
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"A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?"

Regret Grandchildren Tree
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"It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind."

Loss Mysterious Things Mind
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"Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so. And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself."

Fear Mean Thinking
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"Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere."

Believe Triumph Ifs
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"Rich people are poor people with money."

People Rich Poor
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"Beauty is meaningless until it is shared."

Meaningless
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"It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children"

Children People Normal
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"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

Animal Men Pigs
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"The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action."

Religious Spring War
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"A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase."

Family Insulting Phrases
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"Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job."

Jobs Punishment People
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"Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy."

Country War Democracy
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"For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage. The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years."

Running Writing Past
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"To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country."

Country Doe Totalitarianism
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