ما هو صحيح اليوم، كان صحيحًا منذ الأزل، وسيبقى كذلك إلى الأبد.
George OrwellBir sonu olmayan ve kimsenin okumayacağı, ama birisi için yazılmış ve bununla biçimlenen bir mektup gibiydi günlük.
George OrwellWe shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.
George OrwellTo dislike a writer’s politics is one thing. To dislike him because he forces you to think is another, not necessarily incompatible with the first.
George OrwellWhatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
George OrwellWe sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harm.
George OrwellStichwörter: etc
At present I do not feel that I have seen more than the fringe of poverty. Still, I can point to one or two things I have definitely learned by being hard up. I shall never again think that all tramps are drunken scoundrels, nor expect a beggar to be grateful when I give him a penny, nor be surprised if men out of work lack energy, nor subscribe to the Salvation Army, nor pawn my clothes, nor refuse a handbill, nor enjoy a meal at a smart restaurant. That is a beginning.
George OrwellThe young officers who had come back [from WW1], hardened by their terrible experience and disgusted by the attitude of the younger generation to whom this experience meant just nothing, used to lecture us for our softness. Of course they could produce no argument that we were capable of understanding. They could only bark at you that war was ‘a good thing’, it ‘made you tough’, ‘kept you fit’, etc. etc. We merely sniggered at them. Ours was the one-eyed pacifism that is peculiar to sheltered countries with strong navies.
George OrwellStichwörter: pacifism world-war-i
Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin. It is largely because of the books, films and reminiscences that have come between that the war of 1914-18 is now supposed to have had some tremendous, epic quality that the present one lacks.
George OrwellStichwörter: nostalgia
I grew up in an atmosphere tinged with militarism, and afterwards I spent five boring years within the sound of bugles. To this day it gives me a faint feeling of sacrilege not to stand to attention during ‘God save the King’. That is childish, of course, but I would sooner have had that kind of upbringing than be like the left-wing intellectuals who are so ‘enlightened’ that they cannot understand the most ordinary emotions.
George OrwellStichwörter: patriotism intellectuals left-wing intelligentsia
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