Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in the impact of one sound on another, in the firmness of good prose or the rhythm of a good story. Desire to share an experience which one feels is valuable and ought not to be missed. The aesthetic motive is very feeble in a lot of writers, but even a pamphleteer or writer of textbooks will have pet words and phrases which appeal to him for non-utilitarian reasons; or he may feel strongly about typography, width of margins, etc. Above the level of a railway guide, no book is quite free from aesthetic considerations.
George OrwellTags: writing write george-orwell
they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.
George OrwellAslında hiçbir şey değişmezdi,” dedi.
“O halde niçin pişmansın?”
“Olumluyu olumsuza yeğlerim de ondan. Oynadığımız bu oyunda, kazanmak söz konusu değil. Ama bazı yenilgiler ötekilerden daha iyidir, hepsi bu.
Tags: 1984
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.
George OrwellTags: politics writing language orthodoxy orwell
When I think of antiquity, the detail that frightens me is that those hundreds of millions of slaves on whose backs civilization rested generation after generation have left behind them no record whatever. We do not even know their names. In the whole of Greek and Roman history, how many slaves' names are known to you? I can think of two, or possibly three. One is Spartacus and the other is Epictetus. Also, in the Roman room at the British Museum there is a glass jar with the maker's name inscribed on the bottom, 'FELIX FECIT'. I have a mental picture of poor Felix (a Gaul with red hair and a metal collar round his neck), but in fact he may not have been a slave; so there are only two slaves whose names I definitely know, and probably few people can remember more. The rest have gone down into utter silence.
George OrwellOne sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.
George OrwellTags: hippies socialism leftists
Možda čovjeku nije toliko do toga da bude voljen,koliko da bude shvaćen.
George OrwellThe whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.
George Orwellمن يتحكم في الماضي يتحكم في المستقبل، ومن يتحكم في الحاضر يتحكم في الماضي..
George Orwellإن السلطة ليست وسيلة بل غاية، فالمرء لا يقيم حكما استبداديا لحماية الثورة، و انما يشعل الثورة لاقامة حكم استبدادي.ان الهدف من الاضطهاد هو الاضطهاد، و الهدف من التعذيب هو التعذيب، و غاية السلطة هي السلطة.
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