George Orwell citations célèbres
“Tous les animaux sont égaux mais certains sont plus égaux que d'autres.”
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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La Ferme des animaux, 1945
La Ferme des animaux, 1945
Citations sur les animaux de George Orwell
La Ferme des animaux, 1945
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Les Sept Commandements (originaux)
Livre La Ferme des animaux, George Orwell, Gallimard, 1984, 30, 2, 2-07-037516-1, Jean Queval, 1945, Folio, fr
La Ferme des animaux, 1945
Original: 1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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La Ferme des animaux, 1945
Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever. Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.
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Partie du discours de Sage l'Ancien
La Ferme des animaux, 1945
George Orwell Citations
Such, Such Were the Joys
1984
Such, Such Were the Joys
Such, Such Were the Joys
La Ferme des animaux, 1945
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
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L'immunité artistique, quelques notes sur Salvador Dali, 1944
The old life's finished, and to go about looking for it is just waste of time. [...] You can't put Jonah back into the whale.
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Un peu d'air frais, 1939
George Orwell: Citations en anglais
“Poverty frees them from normal standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work”
Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 1
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London
Contexte: The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people — people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from normal standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. Some of the lodgers in our hotel lived lives that were curious beyond words.
Source: All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial”
Source: Animal Farm
“Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.”
Source: Smothered Under Journalism: 1946
“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.”
The Lion and the Unicorn (1941), Part I: England Your England http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/essays/lionunicorn.html
"The Lion and the Unicorn" (1941)
Source: The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
Contexte: As 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.
Inside the Whale (1940) http://orwell.ru/library/essays/whale/english/e_itw
Source: Inside the Whale and Other Essays