"Since pacifists have more freedom of action..." - 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.”

“In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and incovenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban ... At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of iedas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.”

“He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.”

“The goal of pacifism is possible only though a supranational organization. To stand unconditionally for this cause is the criterion of true pacifism.”

“There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.”

“A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.”

“In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.”

“The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.”

“Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.”