For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
George OrwellThe Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.
George OrwellWhen I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.
George OrwellMoney has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.
George Orwell