International sport is war without shooting.
Weitere Zitate von George Orwell
Zum Autor"The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal."
"Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly."
"Nothing exists except through human consciousness."
"I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written."
"Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked."
"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."