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Orwell: Keep The Aspidistra Flying

Book, August, 16 2010

Though a work of fiction, this piece is perhaps the best window into the actual life that Orwell lived through. It captures the many subtle ways that money can pervade and poison "middle-class" life; so much so that the actual poverty of middle c...

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George Orwell

It was not easy....It needed...a sort of athleticism of the mind, an ability at one moment to make th...

George Orwell

It was the first time I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle. Practicall...

George Orwell

The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it als...

George Orwell

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder more respectable, and to give a...

George Orwell

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act...

George Orwell

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are ...

George Orwell

The world, potentially at least, is immensely rich; develop it as it might be developed, and we could...

George Orwell

Under the capitalist system, in order that England may live in comparative comfort, a hundred million...

George Orwell

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a re...

George Orwell

Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me....

George Orwell

Who controls the past controls the future: who controlsthe present controls the past...

George Orwell

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear....

George Orwell

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a re...

George Orwell

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible....

George Orwell

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a re...

George Orwell

Who controls the past controls the present, who controls the present controls the future....

George Orwell

Capitalism leads to dole queues, the scramble for markets, and war. Collectivism leadsto concentratio...

George Orwell

If human equality is to be forever averted - if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their p...

George Orwell