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About George Orwell
English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic
George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic. He is known for writing with clear prose and for work shaped by social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support for democratic socialism. His writing is marked by direct language and a strong political conscience. Across his novels, essays, and journalism, he returns to questions of power, public life, and freedom, and he is closely associated with criticism of totalitarian rule and with democratic socialist ideas.
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- “אדם צריך להשתייך לאינטליגנציה כדי להאמין לדברים כאלה. אדם נורמלי לא יכול להיות כזה טיפש.”George Orwell
- “אורוול מראה שמהפכנים אידיאליסטים יהפכו במהירה לפוליטיקאים ציניים, שהמשטר יכול לשלוט גם על מחשבותינו ודעותינו.”George Orwell
- “One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the…”George Orwell
- “The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.”George Orwell
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Books by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The source of many political quotes.
Animal Farm
A short political fable.