Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese.
George OrwellThe choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
George OrwellI sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
George OrwellA man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature
George OrwellScientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.
George Orwell