George Orwell (June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950) on Free Speech and The State

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(1903 - 1950)

English Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Critic, Supporter of Democratic Socialism, Opponent of Authoritarianism, and Proven Undercover Agent Reporting on the Left to the Police

: An English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism. Orwell produced literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). (From: Wikipedia.org.)


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Quote #4 on Political Struggle Quotes >> Free Speech and The State

“There is no sales value there, but it extends your publicity a little and by talking about these things on the air in wartime one has the feeling that one is keeping a tiny lamp alight somewhere.”

Source: "The Duty to Stand Aside: Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort," by Eric Laursen, 2018, AK Press. Chapter 4: A Disagreement in Verse, Page 58.

"The Duty to Stand Aside: Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort," by Eric Laursen, 2018, AK Press.

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