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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOrwell was a brilliant man
"An army of unemployed led by millionaires quoting the Sermon on the Mount that is our danger. But it cannot arise when we have once introduced a reasonable degree of social justice. The lady in the Rolls-Royce car is more damaging to morale than a fleet of Goering's bombing planes."
George Orwell, Shopkeepers at War
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)VERY cool site, btw.
ooooh...let me add this better link which shows his books and essays and etc.
http://orwell.ru/library/index_en
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Thanks for sharing this! I had been poking around for a place to find his essays because I would like to read them all. Now I just go to that site and send it to my e-reader and I'm all loaded up.
His was a great mind and while his novels are lauded, his other writings are more obscure. His message is vitally important today and we should be passing them around to every corner.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)but this site has his essays, which are hard to find.
And they are so easy to downlaod in pdf format, which Nook can read.
Happy Reading!
Oh....PS: didja notice the site is by a russian?
A Russian, putting up Orwell, which we, Americans, really need to be reminded of in this day and age.
Oh, the irony.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)My biggest fear is that the dumbing down of the world, and truly as Orwell predicted, the shrinking and loss of language is happening because people no longer read. The internet is great for short snippets, but in order to really learn and examine a subject one has to read. I hope it becomes a show of resistance and incredibly popular!
daleanime
(17,796 posts)Now my reading list is longer.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and I keep adding to it, also!
hunter
(38,301 posts)It disturbs me greatly when people see his work as historical, applicable only to Soviet Communism and Nazi Fascism.
Orwell's work is timeless. It is applicable to this day.
The lady in the Rolls Royce still exists.
libodem
(19,288 posts)It is frightening to see his predictions materialize.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,938 posts)"The primary aim of modern warfare is to use up the products of the
machine without raising the general standard of living." -- George
Orwell seen on the web
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,938 posts)"It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political
feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism
which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them
accept longer working hours or shorter rations." -- from the book 1984
by George Orwell, 1949
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,938 posts)"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed:
everything else is public relations." -- George Orwell
roamer65
(36,744 posts)The current alignments nearly represent Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia.
Uncle Joe
(58,270 posts)Thanks for the thread, Horse with no Name.
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kentuck
(111,051 posts)May I borrow it?
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)And the evidence of it grows clearer every day.
kentuck
(111,051 posts)Some good quotes within.