——乔治·奥威尔(George Orwell,1903-1950),英国著名小说家、记者和社会评论家。
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
战争即和平,自由既奴役,无知既力量。
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
谁控制了过去,谁就控制了未来。谁控制了现在,谁就控制了过去。
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting
所有的战争宣传,所有的尖叫,所有的谎言和仇恨,总是来自那些没有参加战斗的人。
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.
在我们这个时代,没有所谓的“远离政治”。所有的问题都是政治问题,而政治本身就是一大堆谎言、逃避、愚蠢、仇恨和精神分裂。
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.但是如果思想腐蚀语言,语言也能腐蚀思想。
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.
大多数人从他们的生活中得到了相当多的乐趣,但总的来说,生活是痛苦的,只有非常年轻或非常愚蠢的人才会不这样想。