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1 " What we call democracy in a capitalist country only remains in being while things are going well; in time of difficulty it turns immediately into Fascism. "
― George Orwell , Orwell on Freedom
2 " The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside. "
3 " What writers, artists, scientists and philosophers say today is indicative of future rather than current developments "
4 " The freedom of the Press in Britain was always something of a fake, because in the last resort, money controls opinion; "
5 " In a world where everything could be done by machinery, everything would be done by machinery. "
6 " That is invariably the case in the East; a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes. "
7 " Why not let the machine do the work and the men go and do something else? But presently the question arises, what else are they to do? "