George Orwell: Citáty anglicky (strana 13)
George Orwell byl anglický spisovatel a novinář. Citáty anglicky.
"The Lion and the Unicorn" (1941)
Zdroj: Why I Write
Kontext: Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese.
Zdroj: Homage to Catalonia (1938)
Kontext: I have no particular love for the idealised "worker" as he appears in the bourgeois Communist's mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.”
Varianta: If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.
Zdroj: 1984
“There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man”
Zdroj: Animal Farm
"Politics and the English Language" (1946)
Zdroj: Why I Write
Kontext: All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. I should expect to find — this is a guess which I have not sufficient knowledge to verify — that the German, Russian and Italian languages have all deteriorated in the last ten or fifteen years, as a result of dictatorship.
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.
“He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.”
Zdroj: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
“There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.”
Charles Dickens (1939)
Zdroj: Homage to Catalonia
“It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.”
Zdroj: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 9; a remark by Boris
Zdroj: Down and Out in Paris and London
“When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.”
Zdroj: Shooting an Elephant