What did George Orwell mean by: Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. George Orwell Writer · India Copy
+ All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Author, February 7, 2023December 25, 2024, George Orwell, Equality, Manipulation, Power, 0 George Orwell Writer · India
There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Orwell, Merit, Opinion, Survival, 0 George Orwell Writer · India
News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Orwell, Censorship, Media, Truth, 0 George Orwell Writer · India
[…] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don’t want it. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Orwell, Desire, Irony, Sacrifice, 0 George Orwell Writer · India
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Orwell, Corruption, Language, Thought, 0 George Orwell Writer · India
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Orwell, Liberty, Sacrifice, Vigilance, 0 George Orwell Writer · India
To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Orwell, Acceptance, Civilization, Decay, 0 George Orwell Writer · India
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Orwell, Identity, Mind, Possession, 0 George Orwell Writer · India
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it. Read explanation Jean Fautrier Painter · France
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality Jean Rousset
