

George Orwell Inspirational Quotes

Orwell was a British journalist and author, who wrote two of the most famous novels of the 20th century 'Animal Farm' and 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'.





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Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on 25 June 1903 in eastern India, the son of a British colonial civil servant.



He was educated in England and, after he left Eton, joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, then a British colony. He resigned in 1927 and decided to become a writer.



In 1928, he moved to Paris where lack of success as a writer forced him into a series of menial jobs. He described his experiences in his first book, 'Down and Out in Paris and London', published in 1933. He took the name George Orwell, shortly before its publication.



This was followed by his first novel, 'Burmese Days', in 1934.





An anarchist in the late 1920s, by the 1930s he had begun to consider himself a socialist. In 1936, he was commissioned to write an account of poverty among unemployed miners in northern England, which resulted in 'The Road to Wigan Pier' (1937). Late in 1936, Orwell travelled to Spain to fight for the Republicans against Franco's Nationalists.



He was forced to flee in fear of his life from Soviet-backed communists who were suppressing revolutionary socialist dissenters. The experience turned him into a lifelong anti-Stalinist.





Between 1941 and 1943, Orwell worked on propaganda for the BBC. In 1943, he became literary editor of the Tribune, a weekly left-wing magazine. By now he was a prolific journalist, writing articles, reviews and books.





The only good human being is a dead one.



In 1945, Orwell's 'Animal Farm' was published. A political fable set in a farmyard but based on Stalin's betrayal of the Russian Revolution, it made Orwell's name and ensured he was financially comfortable for the first time in his life.



'Nineteen Eighty-Four' was published four years later. Set in an imaginary totalitarian future, the book made a deep impression, with its title and many phrases - such as 'Big Brother is watching you', 'newspeak' and 'doublethink' - entering popular use. By now Orwell's health was deteriorating and he died of tuberculosis on 21 January 1950.





George Orwell Inspirational Quotes





All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.





He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Double think means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

