69 Quotes About Orwell

The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

Ništa nije tvoje vlastito osim nekoliko kubičnih centimetara u tvojoj lubanji.

Antipatične su mi bile gotovo sve žene, a osobito mlade i zgodne. Uvijek su žene, a iznad svega mlađe žene, bile najzadrtije pristaše Partije, najlakše su gutale servirane parole, bile su dobrovoljne doušnice i prokazivačice krivovjerja.

Le plus grand flic du monde, c'est Dieu, puisqu'il n'existe pas.

[Orwell’s] very ordinariness is the sterling guarantee that we need no saintly representative consciences. We would do better to make sterner use of our own.

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE

Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was “bully,

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.