George Orwell: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 13)

“He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.”

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George Orwell książka Folwark zwierzęcy

Źródło: Animal Farm

“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.”

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George Orwell Why I Write

"The Lion and the Unicorn" (1941)
Źródło: Why I Write
Kontekst: 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.”

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George Orwell książka W hołdzie Katalonii

Źródło: Homage to Catalonia (1938)
Kontekst: 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.

“The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.”

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George Orwell

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

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George Orwell książka Rok 1984

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

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.”

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George Orwell książka Rok 1984

Źródło: 1984

“There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man”

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George Orwell książka Folwark zwierzęcy

Źródło: Animal Farm

“The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.”

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George Orwell książka Rok 1984

Źródło: 1984

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

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George Orwell Why I Write

"Politics and the English Language" (1946)
Źródło: Why I Write
Kontekst: 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.