Zitate von George Orwell
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Auf internationaler Ebene ist der Sport ein Kriegsspiel. Aber das Wesentliche ist nicht das Verhalten der Spieler, sondern die Haltung der Zuschauer; und, hinter den Zuschauern, der Nationen, die sich wegen dieser absurden Wettkämpfe in Wutanfälle hineinsteigern und im Ernst glauben - zumindest für kurze Zeitabschnitte -, daß Wettlaufen, Springen und Balltreten Kriterien der nationalen Tugend sind.
Informationen über George Orwell
Schriftsteller, "Farm der Tiere", weltbekannt mit "1984" (England, 1903 - 1950).
George Orwell · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
George Orwell wäre heute 121 Jahre, 2 Monate, 27 Tage oder 44.284 Tage alt.
Geboren am 25.06.1903 in Motihari/Indien
Gestorben am 21.01.1950 in London
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Weitere 84 Zitate von George Orwell
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Big brother is watching you.
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Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Down here it was still the England I had known in my childhood: the railway cuttings smothered in wild flowers . . . the red buses, the blue policemen-all sleeping the deep, deep sleep of England, from which I sometimes fear that we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs.
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Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
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England . . . resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons. It has rich relations who have to be kowtowed to and poor relations who are horribly sat upon, and there is a deep conspiracy of silence about the source of the family income. It is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bed-ridden aunts. Still, it is a family. It has its private language and its common memories, and at the approach of an enemy it closes its ranks. A family with the wrong members in control.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Freedom is above all the right to tell other people what they don't want to hear.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Good prose is like a window-pane.
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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.
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I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever.
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In a Lancashire cotton-town you could probably go for months on end without once hearing an 'educated' accent, whereas there can hardly be a town in the South of England where you could throw a brick without hitting the niece of a bishop.
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In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible.
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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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Keep the aspidistra flying.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.