"Man is the only creature that consumes..." - Quote by George Orwell

“The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.”

“Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.”

“...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.”

“Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours,Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children,as the leopard; and yet we are so early weanedfrom her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusivelyan interaction of man on man.”

“I make small mistakes every day. But major mistakes? It doesn't seem so. I've examined my service to the Tibetan people and to humanity, and I've done as much as I can in my life.”

“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”

“Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.”

“Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.”

“As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.”