Orwell Quotes
28 quotes by 26 authors
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Writer George Orwell confessed he found something "deeply appealing" about Adolf Hitler. Where Martha Dodd was struck by Hitler's "weak, soft face," Orwell discerned "a…
— Brad Marchand
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As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.
— Max Hastings
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Orwell couldn't see that Big Brother would not be The State, but The Corporation.
— Laurence Overmire
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George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.
— Arthur Levitt Jr
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George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of…
— Howard Zinn
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I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so…
— Melvin Burgess
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I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.
— Aravind Adiga
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Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a…
— Ray Bradbury
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George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least…
— Gideon Haigh
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Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.
— Robert Harris
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People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I…
— Christopher Hitchens
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George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories.…
— Haruki Murakami
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Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
— John Pilger
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Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt…
— Frans de Waal
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Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning.
— Jim Butcher
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Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell,…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and…
— David Nicholls
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Whoa!" he says with a smile. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepen. "Chicken salad a la George Orwell!
— Haruki Murakami
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They take the circuits out of people’s brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like the one that…
— Haruki Murakami
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Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!
— Wystan Hugh Auden
Who Wrote These Orwell Quotes
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