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That was the pattern of school life — a continuous triumph of the strong over the weak. Virtue consisted in winning: it consisted in being bigger, stronger, handsomer, richer, more popular, more elegant, more unscrupulous than other people — in dominating them, bullying them, making them suffer pain, making them look foolish, getting the better of them in every way. Life was hierarchical and whatever happened was right. There were the strong, who deserved to win and always did win, and there were the weak, who deserved to lose and always did lose, everlastingly.
George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” sec. 5, Partisan Review (1952-09)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/85938/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #bullying #children #domination #hierarchy #losing #playing #school #strength #weakness #winning #zerosumgame
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I have only just finished rereading “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis, and now I find that this waste of human organs seems to be using it as a guide book! Books like this, Orwell’s 1984 and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 are meant to be prophetic warnings about the evils of tyranny, not used as instruction manuals by bloody tyrants!
#TangerineTyrant #StopFascism #ItCantHappenHere #SinclairLewis #GeorgeOrwell #RayBradbury #DystopianNovels
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I have only just finished rereading “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis, and now I find that this waste of human organs seems to be using it as a guide book! Books like this, Orwell’s 1984 and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 are meant to be prophetic warnings about the evils of tyranny, not used as instruction manuals by bloody tyrants!
#TangerineTyrant #StopFascism #ItCantHappenHere #SinclairLewis #GeorgeOrwell #RayBradbury #DystopianNovels
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I have only just finished rereading “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis, and now I find that this waste of human organs seems to be using it as a guide book! Books like this, Orwell’s 1984 and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 are meant to be prophetic warnings about the evils of tyranny, not used as instruction manuals by bloody tyrants!
#TangerineTyrant #StopFascism #ItCantHappenHere #SinclairLewis #GeorgeOrwell #RayBradbury #DystopianNovels
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Damn! When I read #GeorgeOrwell 's #NineteenEightyFour in high school back in the early 1980s, little did I know I'd been living in it 40 years later...
#ThoughtCrime #DoublePlusUngood #SurveillanceState #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #USPol
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Damn! When I read #GeorgeOrwell 's #NineteenEightyFour in high school back in the early 1980s, little did I know I'd been living in it 40 years later...
#ThoughtCrime #DoublePlusUngood #SurveillanceState #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #USPol
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Damn! When I read #GeorgeOrwell 's #NineteenEightyFour in high school back in the early 1980s, little did I know I'd been living in it 40 years later...
#ThoughtCrime #DoublePlusUngood #SurveillanceState #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #USPol
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Damn! When I read #GeorgeOrwell 's #NineteenEightyFour in high school back in the early 1980s, little did I know I'd been living in it 40 years later...
#ThoughtCrime #DoublePlusUngood #SurveillanceState #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #USPol
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Damn! When I read #GeorgeOrwell 's #NineteenEightyFour in high school back in the early 1980s, little did I know I'd been living in it 40 years later...
#ThoughtCrime #DoublePlusUngood #SurveillanceState #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #USPol
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1984 review – brings new meaning to the word Orwellian
By Katie HawthorneCitizens theatre, GlasgowOrwell is himself a character in this frustrating but provocative adaptation of his dystopian classic, which seeks to refresh its metaphors and make its totalitarian nightmare seem real again
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/06/1984-review-brings-new-meaning-to-the-word-orwellian
#NationalTheatreofScotland #Stage #Culture #GeorgeOrwell #Books #DundeeRep #TheGuardian #KatieHawthorne
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-03-22), “In Front of Your Nose,” “As I Please” column, Tribune NewspaperMore about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/5099/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #attention #awareness #obliviousness #obvious #payattention #unawareness
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Animal Farm review – Andy Serkis’ Orwell adaptation slaughters the classic farmyard satire with sugar
By Peter BradshawThe passionate allegory on Stalinism is outrageously reduced to happy-ending panto in this defanged animation featuring the voices of Seth Rogen, Laverne Cox and Glenn Close
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/15/animal-farm-review-orwell-animation
#Film #Animationinfilm #AndySerkis #Filmadaptations #GeorgeOrwell #SethRogen #GlennClose #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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(33/35)
cf 1937
Hollywood : frénésie productive à succès de #films > 150 films en salle #cinema parlant.
+ l'artiste reconnue #JosephineBaker tente un retour dans les USA ségrégationniste = les hôtels refusent de l’héberger + critiques dénigrent ses prestations #racisme -> revient en France : 4e mariage avec l’industriel Jules Lion (cf 1925 1937).
- Empire Uk : écrivain journaliste #GeorgeOrwell (cf 1933) se marie + #documentaire ... -
https://nkvssp.thecomicseries.com/comics/655/
It bears repeating.
#Society is made up of people, for people.#puppy #dictators #shunThem #tuesdayThought #webcomics #webcomicchat #comicbookhour #comics #1984 #georgeOrwell #NineteenEightyFour #warnings #authors #knowthesigns #tuesday #vibecheck
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Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/29/writers-artists-gardens/
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A quotation from George Orwell
By “nationalism” I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled “good” or “bad.” But secondly — and this is much more important — I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognizing no other duty than that of advancing its interests.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/16966/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #civicduty #classification #devotion #duty #evil #good #goodandevil #ingroup #jingoism #moralduty #nation #nationalism #nationality #outgroup #population #racism #stereotype #tribalism #usvsthem
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Federal law on impairment-detection devices in new cars faces delays
A federal law requiring impairment-d…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Autoindustry #Business #ChrisSwonger #FLStateWire #Florida #Generalnews #GeorgeOrwell #Industryregulation #JoeBiden #Kentucky #KYStateWire #MIStateWire #Michigan #Politics #RanaAbbasTaylor #RonDeSantis #SendtoAppleNews #StephanieManning #Technology #ThomasMassie #U.S.news #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesHouseofRepresentatives #Us #USA
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#15November
Writers-in-prison-day
#JohannesKepler starb 1630 in #RegensburgMein Kalenderblatt zitiert #GeorgeOrwell:
"Kämpfe für die richtige Seite, aber bleibe unbestechlich kritisch gegenüber deren Fehlern."
Dem ist nichts hinzuzufügen.#zusammenstark #unserhof #evadöhla #teameva #kommunalwahl2026 #spd #stadthof #hoferland #movember
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Samedi dernier, nous avions encore droit à une journée printanière. A tel point que ce matin, il y avait foule à la plage. Marcheurs, coureurs, flâneurs, acteurs et réalisateurs en herbe pour le tournage de courts-métrages, etc., foule hétéroclite donc.
Pour ma part, je pris le rôle du coureur puis j’allais plonger (lentement mais sûrement) dans les eaux de la Méditerranée, qui, cette fois encore, devait avoisiner les 17°C.
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Ce lundi matin j’ai pris quelques photos aériennes du Vidourle et de ses rives. Une faible brise soufflait et le soleil n’était pas encore très haut dans le ciel.
Ce mardi matin, j’ai capturé cette image depuis le vieux pont de Sauve. Je pars à vélo alors qu’il fait encore nuit et je profite de ces moments avant le changement d’heure en fin de mois.
Ce mercredi, la course à pied dans […]
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Ce lundi matin j’ai pris quelques photos aériennes du Vidourle et de ses rives. Une faible brise soufflait et le soleil n’était pas encore très haut dans le ciel.
Ce mardi matin, j’ai capturé cette image depuis le vieux pont de Sauve. Je pars à vélo alors qu’il fait encore nuit et je profite de ces moments avant le changement d’heure en fin de mois.
Ce mercredi, la course à pied dans […]
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Ce lundi matin j’ai pris quelques photos aériennes du Vidourle et de ses rives. Une faible brise soufflait et le soleil n’était pas encore très haut dans le ciel.
Ce mardi matin, j’ai capturé cette image depuis le vieux pont de Sauve. Je pars à vélo alors qu’il fait encore nuit et je profite de ces moments avant le changement d’heure en fin de mois.
Ce mercredi, la course à pied dans […]
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Ce lundi matin j’ai pris quelques photos aériennes du Vidourle et de ses rives. Une faible brise soufflait et le soleil n’était pas encore très haut dans le ciel.
Ce mardi matin, j’ai capturé cette image depuis le vieux pont de Sauve. Je pars à vélo alors qu’il fait encore nuit et je profite de ces moments avant le changement d’heure en fin de mois.
Ce mercredi, la course à pied dans […]
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Power worship blurs political judgement because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. […] This habit of mind leads also to the belief that things will happen more quickly, completely, and catastrophically than they ever do in practice. The rise and fall of empires, the disappearance of cultures and religions, are expected to happen with earthquake suddenness, and processes which have barely started are talked about as though they were already at an end.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-05), “Second Thoughts on James Burnham,” Polemic MagazineSourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/19106/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #change #changetheworld #extrapolation #future #politics #power #powerworship #prediction #seachange #socialscience #trends
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I could extend my list of favourite authors by listing those deceased authors for whom, if an authenticated "lost manuscript" surfaced, I'd be first in the line to buy:
#JaneAusten
#CharlesDickens
#DianaWynneJones
#ENesbit
#GeorgeOrwell
#DorothyLSayers
#CliffordSimak
#JackVance