Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.
Weitere Zitate von George Orwell
Zum Autor"Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'."
"Nothing exists except through human consciousness."
"If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise."
"He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve."
"International sport is war without shooting."
"Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings."