George Orwell: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 11)
George Orwell war britischer Schriftsteller, Essayist und Journalist. Zitate auf Englisch.“The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes”
Quelle: Down and Out in Paris and London
Letter to Malcolm Muggeridge (4 December 1948), quoted in Malcolm Muggeridge: A Life (1980) by Ian Hunter
Quelle: The Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.”
Variante: Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Quelle: 1984
"Don't Let Colonel Blimp Ruin the Home Guard" article for the Evening Standard, 8 January 1941
Kontext: Even as it stands, the Home Guard could only exist in a country where men feel themselves free. The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. THAT RIFLE HANGING ON THE WALL OF THE WORKING-CLASS FLAT OR LABOURER'S COTTAGE, IS THE SYMBOL OF DEMOCRACY. IT IS OUR JOB TO SEE THAT IT STAYS THERE.
“To enforce the lies of the present, it is necessary to erase the truths of the past.”
Attributed to Orwell by Keith Olbermann on MSNBC (27 September 2006), this seems to be a paraphrase of some of the statements in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Misattributed
Quelle: 1984