Quotes from George Orwell

It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant–it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery–and obviously one ought not to do it if it can possibly be avoided.

Whoever writes about his childhood must beware of exaggeration and self-pity. I do not want to claim that I was a martyr or that Crossgates was a sort of Dotheboys Hall. But I should be falsifying my own memories if I did not record that they are largely memories of disgust.

I should like to understand what really goes on in the souls of plongeurs and tramps and Embankment sleepers. At present I do not feel that I have seen more than the fringe of poverty.

D??ar?daki hayvanlar, bir domuzdan bir insana, bir insandan bir domuza, gene bir domuzdan tekrar bir insana bakt?lar. Fakat hangisinin domuz, hangisinin insan oldu?unu bilmek imkan? kalmam??t?.

I have had a long life, I have had much time for thought as I lay alone in my stall, and I think I may say that I understand the nature of life on this earth as well as any animal now living.

The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs.

perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.

Sin duda,podrían saber hasta el más pequeño detalle todo lo que uno hubiera hecho, dicho o pensado;pero el fondo del corazón, cuyo contenido era un misterio incluso para su dueño, se mantendría siempre inexpugnable.

that dreary phenomenon, the middle-class person who is an ardent Socialist at twenty-five and a sniffish Conservative at thirty-five...

and reviving that pernicious feeling, so difficult to get rid of, that war is glorious after all.

Un hecho bien conocido puede resultar tan insoportable que sea dejado de lado y no se le permita formar parte de los procesos lógicos; o, por el contrario, puede formar parte de todos los cálculos y, a pesar de eso, no ser admitido jamás como un hecho, ni siquiera en la propia mente.

He had lived on this filthy imitation of food till his own mind and body were compounded of inferior stuff. It was malnutrition and not any native vice that had destroyed his manhood.

Todos somos camaradas. Pero algunos son más camaradas que otros.

Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.

He visto cosas increíbles y por fin creo de verdad en el socialismo.

The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy; they are deliberate exercises in DOUBLETHINK. For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely. In no other way could the ancient cycle be broken.

Bu kapitalist bir sava? ve Britanya emperyalizmi ya?ma u?runa sava??yor diye s?zlanan solcular?n kafas? geriye bakacak ?ekilde vidalanm??.

The best books are those that tell you what you know already

A slave, Marcus Cato said, should be working when he is not sleeping. It does not matter whether his work in itself is good in itself—for slaves, at least. This sentiment still survives, and it has piled up mountains of useless drudgery. I believe that this instinct to perpetuate useless work is, at bottom, simply fear of the mob. The mob (the thought runs) are such low animals that they would be dangerous if they had leisure; it is safer to keep them too busy to think

If there is hope, it's in the proles.

Pourquoi avait-il du mal à supporter la vie actuelle, si ce n'est qu'il y avait une sorte de souvenir ancestral d'une époque où tout était différent ?

there can hardly be a town in the South of England where you can throw a brick without hitting the niece of a bishop.

He had dragged out from the corners of his memory some more fragments of forgotten rhymes.

Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies. Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.