Author of quotes: George Orwell. Page 1

It's not that there's not enough money; the main thing - even impoverished, they cling to a world where money is a virtue, and poverty is vicious. They, the losers who believe in the code of money, are destroyed by the consciousness of the obscenity of poverty. They don't even think of spitting and just living.

The business turned out to be more than just a scam put on a business footing. This is a crazy worship of money, a real cult. Possibly the only religion now - warmed by a living feeling - the newest Business God who has taken the throne of the Lord, as well as financial success or failure instead of biblical good and evil and, accordingly, a different mandate about human duty. No ten commandments, only two orders: to priests, shepherds - Create

He dreamed of money with a purely childish persistence. Why is it impossible to dress well, buy candy and go to the movies often? Why are his parents not like other kids? Why are they poor? Because, the childish mind concluded, they themselves wanted it that way, they like it so much.

He simply hated his poverty-ridden relatives - father and mother, and Julia, and the rest. I hated them for their gloomy housing, bad dress, eternal groans and sighs over pennies, for the fact that we constantly sounded in the house

There is probably no greater cruelty to a child than to send him into the midst of children from much richer families. No grown-up snob would dream of the torments of such a child.

Terrible thing educational psychosis! This means sending your son to a decent (that is, no, but closed private) school, for the sake of which he drags out an existence for many years, which even the family of a locksmith would disdain.

After the death of their father, husbands were found for a pair of long-faded daughters, while the sons, due to their inability to earn money, were left to join the ranks of gentlemen who

All the Comstocks seemed doomed to lurk fearfully in their burrows. Absolute inability to act in any way, not the edge of courage to get somewhere, at least on the bus.

Damn money, nowhere without them! Tight with money - it means a miserable life, the itch of petty troubles, a lack of smoking, everywhere there is a feeling of a shameful failure.

What kind of friends do you have, what kind of communication is there when your pocket is empty?

Like all fat, he did not recognize himself as such, preferring evasive definitions: dense, for example, or portly, or even better, a healthy man. Fat people just love to be called big guys.

... however, miracles happen, and if not miracles, then failures in the mechanism.

At such moments he was with this lonely, mocked heretic, the only guardian of sanity and truth in a world of lies.

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