Albert

“The people who write that kind of stuff never fight; possibly they believe that to write it is a substitute for fighting. It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

“We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it's one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner. and that's all eternity is? I sometimes fancy it like that.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Revolutionary’ discipline depends on political consciousness – on an understanding of why orders must be obeyed.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

“The essential point of Nineteen Eighty-Four is just this, the danger of the ultimate and absolute power which mind can develop when it frees itself from conditions, from the bondage of things and history.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia