George Orwell híres idézetei
George Orwell Idézetek az emberekről
George Orwell Idézetek az igazságról
1984
Egyéb
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
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
George Orwell idézetek
George Orwell: Idézetek angolul
“Poverty frees them from normal standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work”
Forrás: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 1
Forrás: Down and Out in Paris and London
Kontextus: 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.
Forrás: All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial”
Forrás: Animal Farm
“Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.”
Forrás: 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)
Forrás: The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
Kontextus: 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.