"In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was..." - Quote by George Orwell

“Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.”

“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree.”

“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”

“History is not hatred.”

“Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.”

“We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.”

“Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.”

“The beginning is half of the whole.”

“A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.”