It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.
George OrwellIf liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George OrwellAll writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.
George OrwellFrom the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.
George Orwell