George Orwell:
Pseudonym for Eric Arthur Blair
(Motihari (India), 25 June 1903 – London, 21 January 1950)
British writer, journalist, essayist and literary critic. He is one of the most admired English-language authors of the 20th century.
In our age, there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, & schizophrenia…
In a time of universal deception, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
Journalism is – to print what others do not want printed. Everything else is propaganda.
A people who elect corrupt politicians, charlatans, thieves and traitors is not a victim but an accomplice!
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people things they do not want to hear.
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other.
Football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in vontrol was not difficult.
