If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.
George OrwellStichwörter: politics totalitarianism 1984 socialism george-orwell
And the whole huge town of a million people was locked in a sort of violent inertia, a nightmare of noise without movement.
George OrwellStichwörter: things-that-sound-nice
Room 101,’ he said.
George OrwellStichwörter: fear
You were the dead; theirs was the future.
George OrwellStichwörter: orwell
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
George OrwellStichwörter: money freedom poverty george-orwell down-and-out-in-paris-and-london
Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
George OrwellStichwörter: money worry poverty george-orwell down-and-out-in-paris-and-london
It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.
George OrwellStichwörter: poverty hunger george-orwell down-and-out-in-paris-and-london
A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.
George OrwellStichwörter: fear education leisure class poverty labor slavery george-orwell mob down-and-out-in-paris-and-london hierarchy
Writing a novel is agony.
George OrwellStichwörter: fiction dystopia novel
And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?
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