Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible sy… - George Orwell
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
George Orwell (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was the pen name of British novelist, essayist, and journalist Eric Arthur Blair, whose work is characterised by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and strong support of democratic socialism.
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Also Known As
Pen Names:
John Freeman
Birth Name:
Eric Arthur Blair
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Orwell
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Eric Blair
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P. S. Burton
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind. War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. (On the manipulation of language for political ends.) We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.
"الغني لو سئل عن تحسين العمل والحياة فسوف يقول: نحن نعرف أن البؤس غيرمفرح والواقع أن البؤس مادام بعيداً عنا فإننا نتسلح بفكرة أنه غير مفرح. ولكن لا تتوقع منا أن نفعل أي شيء بصدده. نحن آسفون لطبقاتكم الدنيا مثل مانحن آسفون لقطة جرباء...غير أننا سنقاتل كالمردة ضد أي تحسين لظرفكم. نحن نشعر انكم مأمونون أكثر وأنتم في حالكم هذا. إن الواقع الراهن يناسبنا ولسنا مستعدين لمخاطرة تحريركم حتى بساعة إضافية في اليوم هكذا يا إخوتي الأعزاء إن كان عليكم ان تعرقوا لدفع رحلاتنا إلى إيطاليا فلتعرقوا ولتحل عليكم اللعنة "
