If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right. George Orwell More Quotes by George Orwell More Quotes From George Orwell I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes into Labour politics, he becomes middle-class whether he will or no. ie. by fighting against the bourgeoisie he becomes a bourgeois. The fact is that you cannot help living in the manner appropriate and developing the ideology appropriate to your income. George Orwell fighting class men No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. George Orwell equality reform literature To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous. George Orwell fighting military war We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. George Orwell splinters true-life life-is People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word. George Orwell names night people I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives me an inferiority complex. When I read a book like that and then come back to my own work, I feel like a eunuch who has taken a course in voice production. George Orwell voice taken book The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. George Orwell essentials war peace If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class. George Orwell ordinary class character Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist. George Orwell party intelligent war She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing. George Orwell singing children years England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly. George Orwell land silly country Four legs gooood, two legs baaad! George Orwell legs four two Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial George Orwell ham kitchen taken It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx. George Orwell brain men She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing. George Orwell cliffs solve young And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered? George Orwell cry hundred moments Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. George Orwell behaviour ordinary people I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool. George Orwell fool done [...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it. George Orwell this-world want world He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable George Orwell sea monsters past
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