Quotes about Orwell

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Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind: 'It doesn't — George Orwell, 1984
Nothing exists except through human consciousness — George Orwell, 1984
Orwell's short and intense life has for years borne witness to some of those verities of which we were already aware. Pa — Christopher Hitchens
In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preach — George Orwell, 1984
If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and ‘liking’ it — Dean Cavanagh
Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted s — Christopher Hitchens, For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports
The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes. — Helmut Newton
It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write. — George Orwell, Why I Write
It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you. — George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference b — George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
In the same essay, Said (who is reviewing Peter Stansky and William Abrams, co-authors obsessed with the Blair/Orwell di — Christopher Hitchens
The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. — George Orwell, 1984
No special academic expertise is required for insight into the Orwellian use of language, only clear thinking and common — Peter Slezak
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a chi — George Orwell, Essays
Orwell wrote easily and well about small humane pursuits, such as bird watching, gardening and cooking, and did not desp — Christopher Hitchens
Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. — George Orwell, Animal Farm
And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do no — George Orwell, Animal Farm
I fear no hell, just as I expect no heaven. Nabokov summed up a nonbeliever’s view of the cosmos, and our place in it, t — Jeffrey Tayler
The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the h — George Orwell, 1984
Having confronted the world with little except a battered typewriter and a certain resilience, he can now take posthumou — Christopher Hitchens