Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.
George OrwellThe primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.
George OrwellIt's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.
George OrwellWe have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.
George Orwell