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“Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist.”
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
Source: Diaries
“Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.”
George Orwell book Animal Farm
Source: Animal Farm
George Orwell book Inside the Whale and Other Essays
Inside the Whale (1940) http://orwell.ru/library/essays/whale/english/e_itw <br class="br">Source: Inside the Whale and Other Essays
“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.”
George Orwell The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
The Lion and the Unicorn (1941), Part I: England Your England http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/essays/lionunicorn.html <br class="br">"The Lion and the Unicorn" (1941) <br class="br">Source: The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius <br class="br">Context: As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.<br>They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are ‘only doing their duty’, as the saying goes. Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life.
“Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.”
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
“Those who abjure violence can only do so by others committing violence on their behalf.”
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
“Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.”
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
Source: Smothered Under Journalism: 1946
“Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial”
George Orwell book Animal Farm
Source: Animal Farm