George Orwell

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George Orwell

Born: June 25, 1903

Died: January 21, 1950

Nationality: British

Occupation: Author, novelist

Biography: Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist. His work is marked by clarity, intelligence and wit, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and belief in democratic socialism.

George Orwell

“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”

- George Orwell

Source/Notes: Review of A Coat of Many Colours: Occasional Essays by Herbert Read, Poetry Quarterly (Winter 1945)
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George Orwell

“Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.”

- George Orwell

Source/Notes: Critical Essays (2009 edition) - ISBN: 9781846553264
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George Orwell

“Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.”

- George Orwell

Source/Notes: Dickens, Dali & others: studies in popular culture by George Orwell, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946, p. 144
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George Orwell

“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.”

- George Orwell

Source/Notes: The Complete Works of George Orwell: Facing unpleasant facts, 1937-1939, edited by Peter Hobley Davison, p. 75
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George Orwell

“For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.”

- George Orwell

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George Orwell

“Four legs good, two legs bad.”

- George Orwell

Source/Notes: The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four (2001 edition), Penguin UK - ISBN: 9780141911656
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George Orwell

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

- George Orwell

Source/Notes: The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four (2001 edition), Penguin UK - ISBN: 9780141911656
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George Orwell

“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

- George Orwell

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George Orwell

“Good writing is like a windowpane.”

- George Orwell

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George Orwell

“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”

- George Orwell

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George Orwell

“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.”

- George Orwell

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George Orwell

“I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.”

- George Orwell

Source/Notes: Shooting an Elephant (2009 edition), Penguin UK - ISBN: 9780141912288
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George Orwell

“I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.”

- George Orwell

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George Orwell

“I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.”

- George Orwell

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