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George Orwell war britischer Schriftsteller, Essayist und Journalist. Zitate auf Englisch.
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“When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.”

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George Orwell buch Homage to Catalonia

Quelle: Homage to Catalonia (1938)
Kontext: I have no particular love for the idealised "worker" as he appears in the bourgeois Communist's mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.

“The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.”

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“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Variante: If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.
Quelle: 1984

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man”

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George Orwell buch Farm der Tiere

Quelle: Animal Farm

“The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.”

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George Orwell Why I Write

"Politics and the English Language" (1946)
Quelle: Why I Write
Kontext: All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. I should expect to find — this is a guess which I have not sufficient knowledge to verify — that the German, Russian and Italian languages have all deteriorated in the last ten or fifteen years, as a result of dictatorship.
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

“He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.”

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George Orwell buch Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Quelle: Keep the Aspidistra Flying

“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.”

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George Orwell buch Down and Out in Paris and London

Quelle: Down and Out in Paris and London

“Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.”

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“Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.”

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George Orwell buch Homage to Catalonia

Charles Dickens (1939)
Quelle: Homage to Catalonia

“It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.”

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George Orwell buch Down and Out in Paris and London

Quelle: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 9; a remark by Boris
Quelle: Down and Out in Paris and London

“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.”

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George Orwell buch Shooting an Elephant

Quelle: Shooting an Elephant

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”

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“Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.”

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"Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool," Polemic (March 1947)
Kontext: A normal human being does not want the Kingdom of Heaven: he wants life on earth to continue. This is not solely because he is "weak," "sinful" and anxious for a "good time." Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. Ultimately it is the Christian attitude which is self-interested and hedonistic, since the aim is always to get away from the painful struggle of earthly life and find eternal peace in some kind of Heaven or Nirvana. The humanist attitude is that the struggle must continue and that death is the price of life.