And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations -- not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.
George OrwellThere is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.
George OrwellNo advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
George OrwellMrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.
George OrwellWe are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.
George Orwell