There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.
Weitere Zitate von George Orwell
Zum Autor"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."
"Nothing exists except through human consciousness."
"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."
"Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly."