No advance in wealth, no softening of manners…– George Orwell
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much
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