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George Orwell war britischer Schriftsteller, Essayist und Journalist. Zitate auf Englisch.
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“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.”

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George Orwell buch Inside the Whale and Other Essays

Inside the Whale (1940) http://orwell.ru/library/essays/whale/english/e_itw
Quelle: Inside the Whale and Other Essays

“Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.”

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George Orwell buch Farm der Tiere

Quelle: Animal Farm

“Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist.”

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George Orwell

Quelle: Diaries

“Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.”

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George Orwell buch Farm der Tiere

Quelle: Animal Farm

“In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.”

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George Orwell buch Down and Out in Paris and London

Quelle: Down and Out in Paris and London

“The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.”

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George Orwell Why I Write

Quelle: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Ch. 1
Quelle: Why I Write
Kontext: Money, once again; all is money. All human relationships must be purchased with money. If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters. And how right they are, after all! For, moneyless, you are unlovable. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels. But then, if I haven't money, I DON'T speak with the tongues of men and of angels.

“For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“No sentimentality, comrade… The only good human being is a dead one.”

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George Orwell buch Farm der Tiere

Variante: The only good human being is a dead one.
Quelle: Animal Farm

“He loved Big Brother.”

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George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

“I understand HOW: I do not understand WHY”

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George Orwell buch 1984

1984
Variante: I understand HOW: I do not understand WHY.

“In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,…[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are invariably frustrated. 'Good poor man defeats bad rich man' is an accepted formula.”

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"As I Please," Tribune (28 July 1944)<sup> http://alexpeak.com/twr/orwell/quotes/</sup>
As I Please (1943–1947)

“Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows, and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon — so long as there is no answer to it — gives claws to the weak.”

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"You and the Atom Bomb" http://orwell.ru/library/articles/ABomb/english/e_abomb, Tribune (19 October 1945)

“Poverty is spiritual halitosis.”

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George Orwell buch Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Quelle: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Ch. 5

“It seemed queer, in the barber's shop, to see the Anarchist notice still on the wall, explaining that tips were prohibited. "The Revolution has struck off our chains," the notice said. I felt like telling the barbers that their chains would soon be back on again if they didn't look out.”

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George Orwell buch Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia (1938)

“Orthodoxy, of whatever colour, seems to demand a lifeless, imitative style.”

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George Orwell buch Politics and the English Language

Politics and the English Language (1946)