إذا تمسكت بالحقيقة مخالفا العالم برمته فإنك لست مجنون.
George Orwellالاحتفاظ بالسلطة إلى أبد الآبدين لا يأتي عن طريق التوفيق بين المتناقضات.
George Orwellعندما تصبح الحرب مستمرة تصبح أيضا غير خطرة.
George Orwellالإنسان يود أن يفهمه الآخرون أكثر من أن يحبوه.
George Orwellلا يؤسس أحد ديكتاتوريه لتوطيد أركان الثورة ,بل نعلم أن الإنسان يقوم بثورة لتوطيد أركان الدكتاتورية. إن غرض التعذيب هو التعذيب وغرض السلطة هو السلطة.
George Orwellلأول مرة أدرك أن الإنسان إذا أراد أن يحتفظ بسر لنفسه عليه أن يخفيه عن نفسه,وعليه أن يعرف دائما أن السر رهين قلبه.
George Orwell...for everyone there is something unendurable - something that cannot be contemplated. Courage and cowardice are not involved. If you are falling from a height it is not cowardly to clutch at a rope. If you have come up from deep water it is not cowardly to fill your lungs with air. It is merely an instinct which cannot be disobeyed
George OrwellIt is curious, but till that moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man. When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle, I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide. This man was not dying, he was alive just as we were alive. All the organs of his body were working—bowels digesting food, skin renewing itself, nails growing, tissues forming—toiling away in solemn foolery. His nails would still be growing when he stood on the drop, when he was falling through the air with a tenth of a second to live. His eyes saw the yellow gravel and the grey walls, and his brain still remembered, foresaw, reasoned—reasoned even about puddles. He and we were a party of men walking together, seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same world; and in two minutes, with a sudden snap, one of us would be gone—one mind less, one world less.
George OrwellAs I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are ‘only doing their duty’, as the saying goes. Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. On the other hand, if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces with a well-placed bomb, he will never sleep any the worse for it. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil.
It is not that anyone imagines the law to be just. Everyone knows that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. But no one accepts the implications of this, everyone takes it for granted that the law, such as it is, will be respected, and feels a sense of outrage when it is not.
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