In the old
days, he thought, a man looked at a girl’s body and saw that it was desirable, and that was the end
of the story. But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because
everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a
victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.
Stichwörter: inspirational
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.
George OrwellStichwörter: future injustice totalitarianism
Never use a long word where a short one will do.
George OrwellStichwörter: inspirational
Of course he chanted with the rest: it was impossible to do
otherwise. To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to
do what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction.
Stichwörter: classics 1984 orwell
While freely conceding that the Soviet regime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think, agree that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable concomitant of transitional periods, and that the rigors which the Russian people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement.
George OrwellUp there, comrades," he would say solemnly, pointing to the sky with his large beak– "up there, just on the other side of that dark cloud that you can see– there it lies, Sugarcandy Mountain, that happy country where we poor animals shall rest for ever from our labours!" He even claimed to have been there on one of his higher flights, and to have seen the everlasting fields of clover and the linseed cake and lump sugar growing on the hedges. Many of the animals believed him. Their lives now, they reasoned, were hungry and laborious; was it not right and just that a better world should exist somewhere else?
George OrwellStichwörter: opiate-of-the-people
And in front of him there lay not death but annihilation.
George OrwellEl hombre es el único ser que consume sin producir
George OrwellAnd yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth’s centre.
George OrwellStichwörter: truth philosophical classics fiction-novel
In
our own day they are not fighting against one another at
all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own
subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society
intact.
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