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
George Orwell könyv Homage to Catalonia
Forrás: Homage to Catalonia
“Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.”
George Orwell könyv Állatfarm
Forrás: Animal Farm
George Orwell könyv Állatfarm
Forrás: Animal Farm
“At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.”
"Extracts from a Manuscript Notebook" (1949), The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 4 (1968)
“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”
George Orwell könyv Shooting an Elephant
Forrás: Shooting an Elephant
“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
Possibly a paraphrase of Bertrand Russell in My Philosophical Development (1959): "This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them." It is similar in meaning to Orwell's line from Notes on Nationalism (1945): "One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool." However, Russell was commenting not on politics, as Orwell was, but on some philosophers and their ideas about language.
Misattributed
Változat: Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
“To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.”
"In Front of Your Nose," Tribune (22 March 1946)
“Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.”
George Orwell könyv Állatfarm
Forrás: Animal Farm
"In Front of Your Nose" http://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/nose/english/e_nose, Tribune (22 March 1946) <br class="br">Kontextus: The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.
