Money 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 OrwellIt [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.
George OrwellIf both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?
George OrwellNo advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
George Orwell