If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.
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'."
"There is a humility about genuine love that is rather horrible in some ways."
"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."
"What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person."
"Nothing exists except through human consciousness."