George Orwell: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 11)

George Orwell war britischer Schriftsteller, Essayist und Journalist. Zitate auf Englisch.
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“Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.”

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George Orwell buch Farm der Tiere

Quelle: Animal Farm

“But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes”

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George Orwell buch Down and Out in Paris and London

Quelle: Down and Out in Paris and London

“He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.”

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George Orwell

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

“His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.”

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George Orwell buch Farm der Tiere

Quelle: Animal Farm

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Variante: Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Quelle: 1984

“That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.”

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"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.

“But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984