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✵ 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
Egyéb

„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

George Orwell idézetek

George Orwell: Idézetek angolul

“At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.”

George Orwell Why I Write

"The Lion and the Unicorn" (1941)
Forrás: Why I Write
Kontextus: Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese.

“When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.”

George Orwell könyv Homage to Catalonia

Forrás: Homage to Catalonia (1938)
Kontextus: I have no particular love for the idealised "worker" as he appears in the bourgeois Communist's mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.

“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.”

George Orwell könyv 1984

Változat: If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.
Forrás: 1984

“All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.”

George Orwell Why I Write

"Politics and the English Language" (1946)
Forrás: Why I Write
Kontextus: All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. I should expect to find — this is a guess which I have not sufficient knowledge to verify — that the German, Russian and Italian languages have all deteriorated in the last ten or fifteen years, as a result of dictatorship.
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

“He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.”

George Orwell könyv Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Forrás: Keep the Aspidistra Flying

“Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.”

George Orwell könyv 1984

Forrás: 1984

“There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.”

George Orwell könyv Homage to Catalonia

Charles Dickens (1939)
Forrás: Homage to Catalonia

“It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.”

George Orwell könyv Down and Out in Paris and London

Forrás: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 9; a remark by Boris
Forrás: Down and Out in Paris and London

“When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.”

George Orwell könyv Shooting an Elephant

Forrás: Shooting an Elephant

“Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.”

"Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool," Polemic (March 1947)
Kontextus: A normal human being does not want the Kingdom of Heaven: he wants life on earth to continue. This is not solely because he is "weak," "sinful" and anxious for a "good time." Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. Ultimately it is the Christian attitude which is self-interested and hedonistic, since the aim is always to get away from the painful struggle of earthly life and find eternal peace in some kind of Heaven or Nirvana. The humanist attitude is that the struggle must continue and that death is the price of life.

“Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution”

Forrás: An Age Like This: 1920-1940

“[…] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.”

George Orwell könyv Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Forrás: Keep the Aspidistra Flying

“Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.”

Attributed to Orwell in State of Fear (2004) by Michael Crichton, and Picking Fights with Thunderstorms (2005) by Sheila Suess Kennedy
Disputed

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

No source for this quote among Orwell's writings has yet been located, and the earliest published source of this phrase found on Google Books is this snippet https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=kWD0AAAAMAAJ&q=%22truth+is+a+revolutionary+act%22&dq=%22truth+is+a+revolutionary+act%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjs0MKSqpbKAhWH0iYKHXj6ABUQ6AEIJjAD from p. 5 of Science Dimension, Volumes 14–18 (1982) published by the National Research Council Canada. Quote Investigator has an article "In a Time of Universal Deceit – Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/02/24/truth-revolutionary/ indicating their attempts to trace the quote. The earliest similar remarks they had found were in a 1982 book titled “Partners in Ecocide: Australia’s Complicity in the Uranium Cartel” by Venturino Giorgio Venturini, where the word “universal” was omitted, and a specific originating text was not identified: "In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
Variants:
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.
Truth is treason in an empire of lies. (Often attributed by Ron Paul to Orwell but never sourced.)
In the mid-19th century Karl Georg von Raumer made a remark, which has a similar meaning. In Geschichte der Pedagogic (1855), he states: 'Jede keimende Wahrheit ist revolutionär gegen den entgegenstehenden herrschenden Irrthum, jede keimende Tugend revolutionär gegen das im Schwange gehende, ihr widersprechende Laster' which translates as: "Every germinating truth is revolutionary against the opposing ruling error, every germinating virtue is revolutionary against popular contradictory lies."
In 1898 French socialist Jean Jaurès said, "When a society, when an institution, lives only by lies, truth is revolutionary." He was speaking with reference to the ongoing Dreyfus Affair. The statement is quoted in Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France (2010), p. 262. (She cites Le petit Meridional, 3 July 1898, as the original source.) This seems very close in spirit and in phrasing to the pseudo-Orwell quotation. (The cumulative index to the many volumes of Orwell's writing compiled and edited by Peter Davison does not reveal any direct references to Jaurès or the Dreyfus Affair.)
Disputed
Változat: In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

“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.”

"Benefit Of Clergy: Some Notes On Salvador Dalí," Dickens, Dali & Others: Studies in Popular Culture (1944) http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/dali/english/e_dali

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