There would be many crimes and errors which it would be beyond his power to commit, simply because they were nameless and therefore unimaginable.
George OrwellQuand on aimait, on aimait, et quand on n'avait rien d'autre à donner, on donnait son amour.
George OrwellThe aim of the joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George OrwellSeveral of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.
George OrwellThe masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.
George OrwellThe end was contained in the beginning.
George OrwellWe are the dead,' he said.
'We're not dead yet,' said Julia prosaically.
'Not physically. Six months, a year – five years, conceivably. I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put it off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So longs as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.'
'Oh, rubbish! Which would you sooner sleep with, me or a skeleton? Don't you enjoy being alive? Don't you like feeling: This is me, this is my hand, this is my leg, I'm real, I'm solid, I'm alive!
It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.
George OrwellStichwörter: society inequality dystopia poverty fear-of-the-future
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.
George OrwellThe Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.
George OrwellStichwörter: language totalitarianism 1984 socialism george-orwell
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