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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

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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 est...more

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But after reading it he knew better than before that he was not mad. Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was trut...more

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With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness...more

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The only evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in were intolerable an...more

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If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Ocean...more

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Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every...more

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To die hating them, that was freedom

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From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters.

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If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working accor...more

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A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within the sound of...more

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He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face toward the flames.

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What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is the only real religion-the...more