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He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights.'White to pl — George Orwell, 1984
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. — George Orwell, Why I Write
(...) ha! what is hope? a butterfly in a boxof demons, and nothing escapes the darkuntainted, a mockery of politics and — Moonshine Noire
Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who h — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then — George Orwell, Decline Of The English Murder and Other Essays
Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Most schooling is training for stupidity and conformity, and that's institutional, but occasionally you get a spark, som — Noam Chomsky
Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home — what they fear is physical force.
Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who h — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a th — Gideon Haigh
The answer to 1984 is 1776 — Alex E. Jones
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. — George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
Such is the control, and such the public mentality, enjoyed by the Swedish planners. The rulers of the Soviet Union, alt — Roland Huntford, The New Totalitarians
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. — Golda Meir, My Life
The crisis of history in France, is a crisis of social bond, a crisis of citizenship. A citizen is the heir of a past mo — Jean Sevillia, Historiquement incorrect
Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. — George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases—doublethink, th — Christopher Hitchens
O’Brien: How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?Winston: By making him suffer.O’Brien: Exactly. By maki — George Orwell
His style as a writer places him in the category of the immortals, and his courage as a critic outlives the bitter battl — Christopher Hitchens
His importance to the century just past, and therefore his status as a figure in history as well as in literature, deriv — Christopher Hitchens