乔治·奥威尔是他那个时代最著名的作家之一。他最著名的作品也许是他的有争议的小说《1984》，这是一部语言和真理被破坏的反乌托邦故事。他还写了《动物农场》（Animal Farm），这是一个反苏寓言，动物们在这里反抗人类。

奥威尔是一位伟大的作家和真正的语言大师，他也以一些聪明的谚语而闻名。虽然你可能已经知道他的小说，但这里有一本作者的语录集，你也应该知道。

从严肃到讽刺，从阴暗到乐观，这些乔治·奥威尔的名言给人一种关于宗教、战争、政治、写作、公司和整个社会的感觉。通过理解奥威尔的观点，也许读者能够更好地阅读他的作品。

论自由

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." "I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."

谈论政治

"In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. " "In our age, there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia." "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

笑话

"A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion." "As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me."

论战争

"War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent."

论傲慢

"A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."

论广告

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."

美食家谈话

"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

论宗教

"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."

其他明智的建议

"Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise." "Myths which are believed in tend to become true." "Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing."