I have no particular love for the idealized 'worker' as he appears in the bourgeois Communist's mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.George Orwell
War, to me, meant roaring projectiles and skipping shards of steel; above all it meant mud, lice, hunger, and cold. It is curious, but you cannot imagine what a wonderful relief it was to be for a while in a country where men could walk upright.George Orwell
The most frightening thing about Barcelona was not bomb damage but the human beings. To a crowd of hundreds of thousands a human being is nothing but a dot, a speck, a formless blob.George Orwell
In all the dirty wars of the twentieth century you can see the same process happening, whatever the rights and wrongs. Fraternization holding in check the 'normal' brutality of war.George Orwell
The truth is that every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.George Orwell
Practically I had been seeing months of detailed infighting between rival factions, but with the underlying struggle of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie.George Orwell
One of the common hopes inspired by the Spanish war was/is the hope of seizing the occasion to educate the young and ignorant against the lying propaganda to which they are habitually subjected.George Orwell
Revolutionary discipline depends on political consciousness--on an understanding of why orders must be obeyed; it takes time to diffuse this, but it also takes time to drill a man into an automaton on the bourgeois model.George Orwell
In a revolutionary period much that is written is frankly propaganda. Propaganda is not in itself harmful. But it becomes harmful when you try to conceal it.George Orwell
If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have answered: 'To fight against Fascism,' and if you had asked me what I was fighting for, I should have answered: 'Common decency.'George Orwell