Джордж Оруэлл: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 13)

"The Lion and the Unicorn" (1941)
Источник: Why I Write
Контексте: Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese.

Источник: Homage to Catalonia (1938)
Контексте: I have no particular love for the idealised "worker" as he appears in the bourgeois Communist's mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.

Вариант: If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.
Источник: 1984

Источник: 1984

Источник: Animal Farm

Источник: 1984

"Politics and the English Language" (1946)
Источник: Why I Write
Контексте: All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. I should expect to find — this is a guess which I have not sufficient knowledge to verify — that the German, Russian and Italian languages have all deteriorated in the last ten or fifteen years, as a result of dictatorship.
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

Источник: Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Источник: Down and Out in Paris and London

Источник: 1984

Источник: 1984

Источник: 1984

Charles Dickens (1939)
Источник: Homage to Catalonia

Источник: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 9; a remark by Boris
Источник: Down and Out in Paris and London

Источник: 1984

Источник: Shooting an Elephant