▶ 1903, June 1903, June 25th 1903, India, Asia, …the world,
British Raj,
South Asia,
Bihar,
the Northern Hemisphere,
Motihari, East Champaran district, Tirhut division, Africa-Eurasia,
Eurasia, the UK 'rest of the world' postal zone, US postal Group 6
▶ Nineteen Eighty-Four (June 8th 1949); Animal Farm (1945); Down and Out in Paris and London; Homage to Catalonia; Burmese Days; …Keep the Aspidistra Flying; The Road to Wigan Pier;
Coming Up for Air;
A Clergyman's Daughter; Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool; Decline of the English Murder; Animal Farm and Related Readings; Dickens, Dali and Others; It Is What I Think; I Have Tried to Tell the Truth; Two Wasted Years; Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, Vol. 1; Orwell's England; Keeping Our Little Corner Clean; Collected Essays Journals Volume Uk; A collection of essays; Smothered under Journalism; Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four; Essays; Facing Unpleasant Facts; Collect Essay Orwell; A Patriot after All; All Propaganda Is Lies; I Belong to the Left; Orwell and Politics; 1984, Level 4, Penguin Readers; Orwell in Spain; Our Job Is to Make Life Worth Living; Orwell and the Dispossessed; A Kind of Compulsion; The Orwell Reader; George Orwell; The lion and the unicorn
▶ "orwell george", "orwells", "george orwells", "orwellian", "orwell's", …"orwell", "george orwell's"
▶ "Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible."; "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."; "When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic."; "Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."; "What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"; …"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."; "We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose."; "We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."; "We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."; "War is war. The only good human being is a dead one."; "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."; "War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil."; "War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent."; "War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."; "To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization."; "To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself."; "To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others."; "There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction."; "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them."; "The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history."; "The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."; "The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."; "The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time."; "The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth."; "The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor."; "The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."; "The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent."; "The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."; "The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun."; "The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature."; "The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."; "Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious."; "Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."; "Serious sport is war minus the shooting."; "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."; "Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent."; "Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."; "Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing."; "Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there."; "Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."; "Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."; "Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end."; "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."; "Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism."; "One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship."; "One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up."; "One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return."; "On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."; "Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia."; "Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."; "No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy."; "No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer."; "Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."; "Myths which are believed in tend to become true."; "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."; "Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness."; "Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."; "Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings."; "Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."; "Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals."; "Liberal: a power worshipper without power."; "Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers."; "Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant."; "In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible."; "In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."; "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."; "If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?"; "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."; "I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."; "I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment."; "He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him."; "Happiness can exist only in acceptance."; "Good writing is like a windowpane."; "Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."; "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."; "Four legs good, two legs bad."; "For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity."; "Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac."; "Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility."; "Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper."; "Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."; "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."; "Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing."; "But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."; "Big Brother is watching you."; "At fifty everyone has the face he deserves."; "As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents."; "As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me."; "All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."; "All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome."; "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."; "Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."; "A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."; "A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase."; "A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
