George Orwell: Citáty anglicky (strana 11)
George Orwell byl anglický spisovatel a novinář. Citáty anglicky.“The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes”
Zdroj: Down and Out in Paris and London
Letter to Malcolm Muggeridge (4 December 1948), quoted in Malcolm Muggeridge: A Life (1980) by Ian Hunter
Zdroj: The Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.”
Varianta: Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Zdroj: 1984
"Don't Let Colonel Blimp Ruin the Home Guard" article for the Evening Standard, 8 January 1941
Kontext: Even as it stands, the Home Guard could only exist in a country where men feel themselves free. The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. THAT RIFLE HANGING ON THE WALL OF THE WORKING-CLASS FLAT OR LABOURER'S COTTAGE, IS THE SYMBOL OF DEMOCRACY. IT IS OUR JOB TO SEE THAT IT STAYS THERE.