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kamna's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
yusraakbari's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
Some fav quotes:
1. It is not that anyone imagines the law to be just. Everyone knows that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. But no one accepts the implications of this, everyone takes it for granted that the law, such as it is, will be respected, and feels a sense of outrage when it is not.
2. I only know that the right men will be there when the people really want them, for it is movements that make leaders and not leaders movements.
3. But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better.
4. Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
1. It is not that anyone imagines the law to be just. Everyone knows that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. But no one accepts the implications of this, everyone takes it for granted that the law, such as it is, will be respected, and feels a sense of outrage when it is not.
2. I only know that the right men will be there when the people really want them, for it is movements that make leaders and not leaders movements.
3. But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better.
4. Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
kiperoo's review against another edition
4.0
Some really great insight here (still applicable today)
gjermis's review against another edition
4.0
Her er det mye gull.
I fare for å være den fyren: tror mange av dem som forsøker å legitimere seg selv med å slenge rundt sitater fra Orwell kunne hatt godt av å lese hva han faktisk stod for.
I fare for å være den fyren: tror mange av dem som forsøker å legitimere seg selv med å slenge rundt sitater fra Orwell kunne hatt godt av å lese hva han faktisk stod for.
msbethreads's review against another edition
3.0
A bit disingenuous. There was a 10 page essay about writing to start the book off and ends with one about the changes in language (caused by politics, of course, but it references writing so ... it counts?). After that, it was rambling essays on Orwell's opinion of English politics. Interesting, mind you, but not something I was looking to read about.
lizardkidd's review against another edition
3.0
Another great little book with some of Orwell’s thoughts on the Nazi regime, British democracy, Socialism, etc.
It blows my mind reading Orwell; he was well beyond his time, particularly in his writings about our current class systems and their severity to the counties social and economic dynamic.
It blows my mind reading Orwell; he was well beyond his time, particularly in his writings about our current class systems and their severity to the counties social and economic dynamic.