To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. – 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 sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. – George Orwell
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. – George Orwell
What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whores lap, or in the orgasm of a voluptuous dream, might (for aught we know) have formed a Caesar or a Bonaparte — there is nothing remarkable recorded of their sires, that I know of. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron