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
. . . It is Germany that is moving towards Russia, rather than the other way about. It is therefore nonsense to talk about Germany ‘going Bolshevik’ if Hitler falls. Germany is going Bolshevik because of Hitler and not in spite of him.
Review of The Totalitarian Enemy by F. Borkenau, Time and Tide (4 May 1940). Orwell: My Country Right or Left - 1940 to 1943, Vol. 2, Essays, Journalism & Letters, Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus, edit., Boston, MA, Nonpareil Books (2000), p. 25.
Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.
Review of Indian Mosaic by Mark Channing, in The Listener (15 July 1936)
Letter to Leonard Moore (19 November 1932)
Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, George Orwell: An Age Like This, 1920–1940, Editors: Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus. p. 106.
Source: "Can Socialists Be Happy?" https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/can-socialists-be-happy/, Tribune (20 December 1943). Published under the name ‘John Freeman’.
Source: “Bookshop Memories” in Fortnightly (November 1936)
Part III : The English Revolution, § II
The Lion and the Unicorn (1941)
Part II : Shopkeepers At War, § II
The Lion and the Unicorn (1941)
Source: Antisemitism in Britain (1945)
Source: "As I Please," Tribune (3 March 1944)
http://alexpeak.com/twr/orwell/quotes/
Source: "As I Please," Tribune, (24 December 1943)
From a review of Malcolm Muggeridge's The Thirties, in New English Weekly (25 April 1940)
Contexte: It is all very well to be "advanced" and "enlightened," to snigger at Colonel Blimp and proclaim your emancipation from all traditional loyalties, but a time comes when the sand of the desert is sodden red and what have I done for thee, England, my England? As I was brought up in this tradition myself I can recognise it under strange disguises, and also sympathise with it, for even at its stupidest and most sentimental it is a comelier thing than the shallow self-righteousness of the left-wing intelligentsia.
Attributed to Orwell by John H. Bunzel, president of San Jose State University, as reported in Phyllis Schlafly, The Power of the Positive Woman (1977), p. 151; but not found in Orwell's works or in reports contemporaneous with his life. Possibly a paraphrase of Orwell's description of the rationale behind Newspeak in 1984.
Disputed
Letter to Humphry House (11 April 1940). The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, George Orwell: An Age Like This, 1920–1940, Editors: Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus. p. 530 http://books.google.com/books?id=0j2qODEJkdoC&pg=PA530#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Letter to Frank Barber (15 December 1944)
The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, George Orwell: As I Please, 1943-1945, Editors: Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus. p. 292.
