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Pacifism is a tenable position, provided that you are prepared to live with the consequences.

Moreover [pacifists] do not as a rule condemn violence as such, but only violence used in defence of western countries

The POUM] posters, designed for a wider public (posters are important in Spain, with its large illiterate population).

And it was exactly at this moment that the significant thing happened -if, indeed, it did happen.

Dickens seems to have succeeded in attacking everybody and antagonizing nobody. Naturally this makes one wonder whether after all there was something unreal in his attack upon society.

February your grandmother!

Most modern literary criticism is literary and nothing else—that is, it concentrates on an author's style and thinks it rather vulgar to notice his subject matter.

The best brothel-scenes in literature have been written, without exception, by pious believers or pious unbelievers.

Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.

His small but childish handwriting straggled up and down the page, shedding first its capital letters and finally even its full stops:

Twenty or twenty-five years ago, contraception and enlightenment were held to be almost synonymous.

Blake was not a politician, but there is more understanding of the nature of capitalist society in a poem like "I wander through each charter'd street" than in three-quarters of Socialist literature.

The clerks are French, and, like most French people, are in a bad temper till they have eaten their lunch.

The fact is that the Salvation Army are so in the habit of thinking themselves a charitable body that they cannot even run a lodging-house without making it stink of charity.

The other farmers sympathised in principle, but they did not at first give him much help. At heart, each of them was secretly wondering whether he could not somehow turn Jones's misfortune to his own advantage.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.   It

A modern literary intellectual lives and writes in constant dread—not, indeed, of public opinion in the wider sense, but of public opinion within his own group.

George Orwell is the best author -Jolie

But we were glad of our tea after the cold, restless night. I do not know what tramps would do without tea, or rather the stuff they miscall tea.

Sleep had ceased to be a mere physical necessity; it was something voluptuous, and debauch more than a relief.

It was not desirable for the paroles to have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.

Like his illustrious predecessor, Parsons did not see the two disciplines of science and magic as contradictory.

he explained how anxious he had been to earn his freedom.

Perhaps not all the time will he be rewarded because sometimes his judgment may be faulty and