The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.
George OrwellA man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.
George OrwellThe essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
George OrwellThe Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.
George Orwell