Quotes from George Orwell

quien controla al pasado controla al futuro. quien controla el presente controla al pasado.

How could you have a slogan like freedom is slavery when the concept of freedom had been abolished

But when war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous. When war is continuous there is no such thing as military necessity. Technical progress can cease and the most palpable facts can be denied or disregarded.

However, peace was restored when two clowns hurried on to the stage and began letting off crackers and making obscene jokes.

Wszystko istnieje wy??cznie dzi?ki naszej ?wiadomo?ci.

Nunca hagan caso cuando les digan que el Hombre y los animales tienen intereses comunes, que la prosperidad de uno es la prosperidad de los otros. Son todas mentiras. El Hombre no sirve los intereses de ninguna criatura excepto los suyos.

Even when there was no doubt about the invitation he always half expected that there would be some hitch or other. He was never quite certain of his welcome.

Ver lo que tenemos delante de nuestras narices requiere un esfuerzo constante

Gelecekten o kadar korkuyoruz ki bir tavÅŸan gibi doÄŸruca boa y?lan?n?n g?rtla??ndan içeri atl?yoruz.

a tiny, ailing, very silent child of two or three, with a face made simian by thinness.

Gerçek tek hayat?m?z gelecektedir. Onun oluÅŸmas?nda bizler kemik parçalar?y?z. GeleceÄŸin ne kadar uzakta olduÄŸunu bilemeyiz. Belki bin y?l sonrad?r. Åžimdi, ak?lc? düÅŸünenlerin say?s?n? azar azar coÄŸaltmaktan baÅŸka yapabileceÄŸimiz bir ÅŸey yok.

Lo horrible de los Dos Minutos de Odio no era el que cada uno tuviera que desempeñar allí un papel sino, al contrario, que era absolutamente imposible evitar la participación porque era uno arrastrado irremisiblemente. A los treinta segundos no hacía falta fingir

Western civilisation, unlike Oriental civilisations, was founded partly on the belief in individual immortality. If one looks at the Christian religion from the outside, this belief appears far more important than belief in God. The Western conception of good and evil is very difficult to separate from it.

They had never seen animals behave like this before, and this sudden uprising of creatures whom they were used to thrashing and maltreating just as they chose, frightened them almost out of their wits.

Incluso los nombres de los cuatro ministerios que los gobiernan revelan un gran descaro al tergiversar deliberadamente los hechos. El Ministerio de la Paz se ocupa de la guerra; el Ministerio de la Verdad, de las mentiras; el Ministerio del Amor, de la tortura, y el Ministerio de la Abundancia, del hambre.

because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.

All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

It is so with all types of manual work; it keeps us alive, and we are oblivious of its existence. More than anyone else, perhaps, the miner can stand as the type of the manual worker, not only because his work is so exaggeratedly awful, but also because it is so vitally necessary and yet so remote from our experience, so invisible, as it were, that we are capable of forgetting it as we forget the blood in our veins.

WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Si tolga l'uomo dalla scena e sarà tolta per sempre la causa della fame e della fatica. L'uomo è la sola creatura che consuma senza produrre. Egli non dà latte, non fa uova, è troppo debole per tirare l'aratro, non può correre abbastanza velocemente per prendere i conigli. E tuttavia è il signore di tutti gli animali.

Las gallinas -dijo Napoleón- debían recibir con agrado este sacrificio como aportación especial a la construcción del molino.»

That's her style of beauty.

Senin görüÅŸlerini sonuna kadar dinledikten sonra kendi bildiÄŸini okumakta direten, senden daha zeki bir ç?lg?na kar?? ne yapabilirsin ki, diye geçirdi akl?ndan.