"It was almost normal for people over..." - Quote by George Orwell
It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children
More by George Orwell
“Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.”
“The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.”
“You were the dead; theirs was the future.”
More on Fear
“Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.”
“Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.”
“Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.”