Джордж Оруэлл: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 11)
Джордж Оруэлл было английский писатель и публицист. Цитаты на английском языке.“The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes”
Источник: Down and Out in Paris and London
Letter to Malcolm Muggeridge (4 December 1948), quoted in Malcolm Muggeridge: A Life (1980) by Ian Hunter
Источник: The Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.”
Вариант: Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Источник: 1984
"Don't Let Colonel Blimp Ruin the Home Guard" article for the Evening Standard, 8 January 1941
Контексте: Even as it stands, the Home Guard could only exist in a country where men feel themselves free. The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. THAT RIFLE HANGING ON THE WALL OF THE WORKING-CLASS FLAT OR LABOURER'S COTTAGE, IS THE SYMBOL OF DEMOCRACY. IT IS OUR JOB TO SEE THAT IT STAYS THERE.
“The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”
Источник: 1984