People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. – George Orwell
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. – George Orwell
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. – George Orwell
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. – George Orwell