George Orwell: Frases en inglés (página 2)

Sometimes paraphrased as "Liberty is telling people what they do not want to hear."
Variante: Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Fuente: Original preface to Animal Farm; as published in George Orwell: Some Materials for a Bibliography (1953) by Ian R. Willison

Fuente: 1984

Fuente: 1984

Fuente: Animal Farm

Fuente: 1984

"Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool," Polemic (March 1947) - Full text online http://orwell.ru/library/essays/lear/english/e_ltf]

A Clergyman's Daughter, Ch. 2 (1935)

"London Letter" (December 1944), in Partisan Review (Winter 1945)

Part I : England Your England, § IV
The Lion and the Unicorn (1941)

Fuente: 1984

Fuente: 1984

"As I Please," Tribune (8 December 1944)^{http://alexpeak.com/twr/tdoaom/}
"As I Please" (1943–1947)
Contexto: The important thing is to discover which individuals are honest and which are not, and the usual blanket accusation merely makes this more difficult. The atmosphere of hatred in which controversy is conducted blinds people to considerations of this kind. To admit that an opponent might be both honest and intelligent is felt to be intolerable. It is more immediately satisfying to shout that he is a fool or a scoundrel, or both, than to find out what he is really like. It is this habit of mind, among other things, that has made political prediction in our time so remarkably unsuccessful.

"The Prevention of Literature" (1946)
Contexto: A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened. Then, again, every major change in policy demands a corresponding change of doctrine and a revaluation of prominent historical figures.

Fuente: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 3
Contexto: For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. When you have a hundred francs in the world you are liable to the most craven panics. When you have only three francs you are quite indifferent; for three francs will feed you till tomorrow, and you cannot think further than that. You are bored, but you are not afraid. You think vaguely, 'I shall be starving in a day or two--shocking, isn't it?' And then the mind wanders to other topics. A bread and margarine diet does, to some extent, provide its own anodyne. And there is another feeling that is a great consolation in poverty. I believe everyone who has been hard up has experienced it. It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs--and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.

Fuente: 1984

Fuente: 1984

Variante: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Fuente: Animal Farm

Fuente: 1984