George Orwell híres idézetei
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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
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.”
Változat: Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Forrás: 1984
"Don't Let Colonel Blimp Ruin the Home Guard" article for the Evening Standard, 8 January 1941
Kontextus: Even as it stands, the Home Guard could only exist in a country where men feel themselves free. The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. THAT RIFLE HANGING ON THE WALL OF THE WORKING-CLASS FLAT OR LABOURER'S COTTAGE, IS THE SYMBOL OF DEMOCRACY. IT IS OUR JOB TO SEE THAT IT STAYS THERE.
“The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”
Forrás: 1984
“To enforce the lies of the present, it is necessary to erase the truths of the past.”
Attributed to Orwell by Keith Olbermann on MSNBC (27 September 2006), this seems to be a paraphrase of some of the statements in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Misattributed
Forrás: 1984
“Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.”
Forrás: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 4
Forrás: Down and Out in Paris and London
Kontextus: For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
Forrás: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 30
Forrás: Down and Out in Paris and London
Kontextus: He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve. Sometimes, he said, when sleeping on the Embankment, it had consoled him to look up at Mars or Jupiter and think that there were probably Embankment sleepers there. He had a curious theory about this. Life on earth, he said, is harsh because the planet is poor in the necessities of existence. Mars, with its cold climate and scanty water, must be far poorer, and life correspondingly harsher. Whereas on earth you are merely imprisoned for stealing sixpence, on Mars you are probably boiled alive. This thought cheered Bozo, I do not know why. He was a very exceptional man.
“A lunatic is just a minority of one.”
Változat: Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
Forrás: 1984
“The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.”
Forrás: 1984