It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true, that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during "God Save the King" than stealing from a poor box
George OrwellMots clés warning
The average citizen of Oceania never sets eyes on a citizen of either Eurasia or Eastasia, and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies
George Orwellإن جوهر حكم القلة ليس وراثة الابن لأبيه، وإنما هو استمرارية رؤية للعالم وأسلوب حياة يفرضها الموتى على الأحياء، وتظل الفئة الحاكمة حاكمة ما دامت قادرة على تعيين خلفائها. ولا يهتم الحزب بإبقاء سلالة بعينها وإنما يهتم بتخليد مبادئه، فليس مهما من يتولى السلطة طالما أن التركيب الهرمي للمجتمع لن يمس وسيظل على ما هو عليه.
George Orwellليس ثمّة من يأبه لما يقوله الفقراء.
George OrwellThe truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.
George OrwellThe heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable-what then?
George Orwellماذا تستطيع أن تفعل حيال مجنون أحدَّ ذكاءً منك ويصغي جيدا إلى حججك لكنه يتمسك بجنونه؟
George OrwellIn all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.
George OrwellIt was curious how that predestined horror moved in and out of one’s consciousness. There it lay, fixed in future times, preceding death as surely as 99 precedes 100. One could not avoid it, but one could perhaps postpone it: and yet instead, every now and again, by a conscious, wilful act, one chose to shorten the interval before it happened.
George OrwellFor when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs all of the others ... the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have the less you worry.
When you have a hundred francs in the world you are liable to the most craven panics. When you have three francs left, you are quite indifferent ... you are bored but you are not afraid. You think vaguely "I shall be starving in a day or two- shocking, isn't it?" And then the mind wanders to other topics. A bread and margarine diet does, to some extent, provide its own anodyne.
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