#th

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. ↗

— George Orwell

#always #class #hatred #internationalism #stronger

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 of literature. ↗

— George Orwell

#always #atmosphere #completely #damaging #forms

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. ↗

— George Orwell

#difference #hardly #less #makes #more

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. ↗

— George Orwell

#belong #class #dreadful #feared #further

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. ↗

— George Orwell

#eternal #eternal vigilance #i #liberty #much

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 love in return. ↗

— George Orwell

#another #any #assume #child #deeply

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. ↗

— George Orwell

#does #human #human being #love #loving

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. ↗

— George Orwell

#intelligent #make #masses #materials #might

Myths which are believed in tend to become true. ↗

— George Orwell

#believed #myths #tend #true #which

I can't do anything in moderation. ↗

— Ozzy Osbourne

#i #moderation