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George Orwell angol író, kritikus, újságíró.

✵ 25. június 1903 – 21. január 1950
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„A náci elmélet kifejezetten tagadja, hogy létezne olyan, hogy igazság. Ennek a fajta gondolkodásnak egy olyan rémisztő világ megteremtése a célja, melyben a Vezér, vagy egy uralkodó klikk nemcsak a jövőt de a múltat is az ellenőrzése alatt tartja. Ha a vezér azt állítja, hogy ez és ez az esemény soha nem történt meg.”

nos, akkor soha nem történt meg. Ha azt mondja kettő meg kettő az öt – akkor kettő meg kettő az öt. Egy ilyen jövő lehetősége rémisztőbb számomra a bombáknál is.

Looking Back on the Spanish War
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„A náci elmélet kifejezetten tagadja, hogy létezne olyan, hogy igazság. Ennek a fajta gondolkodásnak egy olyan rémisztő világ megteremtése a célja, melyben a Vezér, vagy egy uralkodó klikk nemcsak a jövőt de a múltat is az ellenőrzése alatt tartja. Ha a vezér azt állítja, hogy ez és ez az esemény soha nem történt meg.”

nos, akkor soha nem történt meg. Ha azt mondja kettő meg kettő az öt – akkor kettő meg kettő az öt. Egy ilyen jövő lehetősége rémisztőbb számomra a bombáknál is.

Looking Back on the Spanish War
Egyéb

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George Orwell: Idézetek angolul

“Big Brother is Watching You.”

George Orwell könyv 1984

Forrás: 1984

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

George Orwell könyv Politics and the English Language

"Politics and the English Language" (1946)
Kontextus: Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

“History is written by the winners.”

"As I Please" (1943–1947)
Kontextus: During part of 1941 and 1942, when the Luftwaffe was busy in Russia, the German radio regaled its home audience with stories of devastating air raids on London. Now, we are aware that those raids did not happen. But what use would our knowledge be if the Germans conquered Britain? For the purpose of a future historian, did those raids happen, or didn't they? The answer is: If Hitler survives, they happened, and if he falls they didn't happen. So with innumerable other events of the past ten or twenty years. Is the Protocols of the Elders of Zion a genuine document? Did Trotsky plot with the Nazis? How many German aeroplanes were shot down in the Battle of Britain? Does Europe welcome the New Order? In no case do you get one answer which is universally accepted because it is true: in each case you get a number of totally incompatible answers, one of which is finally adopted as the result of a physical struggle. History is written by the winners.

“We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf.”

This has commonly been attributed to Orwell but has not been found in any of his writings. Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/07/rough-men/ found the earliest known appearance in a 1993 Washington Times essay by Richard Grenier: "As George Orwell pointed out, people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." The absence of quotation marks indicates Grenier was using his own words to convey Orwell's opinion; thus it may have originated as a paraphrase of his statement in "Notes on Nationalism" https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwelnat.htm (May 1945): "Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf." There are also similar sentiments expressed in an essay which Orwell wrote on Rudyard Kipling, quoting from one of Kipling's poems: "Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep." In the same essay Orwell also wrote of Kipling: "He sees clearly that men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them."
Misattributed

“Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.”

George Orwell könyv Coming Up for Air

Forrás: Coming Up for Air, Part 3, Ch. 1

“Trust a snake before a Jew and a Jew before a Greek, but don't trust an Armenian”

George Orwell könyv Down and Out in Paris and London

Forrás: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 13
Forrás: Down and Out in Paris and London
Kontextus: I only realized during my last week that I was being cheated, and, as I could prove nothing, only twenty-five francs were refunded. The doorkeeper played similar tricks on any employee who was fool enough to be taken in. He called himself a Greek, but in reality he was an Armenian. After knowing him I saw the force of the proverb "Trust a snake before a Jew and a Jew before a Greek, but don't trust an Armenian."

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

This is often attributed to George Orwell book 1984. We cannot find it inside. Perharps this is post-mortem paraphrase of his quote "Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past".

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

George Orwell könyv Állatfarm

Sometimes paraphrased as "Liberty is telling people what they do not want to hear."
Változat: Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Forrás: Original preface to Animal Farm; as published in George Orwell: Some Materials for a Bibliography (1953) by Ian R. Willison

“A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.”

"Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool," Polemic (March 1947) - Full text online http://orwell.ru/library/essays/lear/english/e_ltf]

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