David Klein

“You could quite easily drive a car right across the north of England and never once remember that hundreds of feet below the road you are on the miners are hacking at the coal. Yet in a sense it is the miners who are driving your car forward. Their lamp-lit world down there is as necessary to the daylight world above as the root is to the flower.”
― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

“Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn’t do the hangman’s job.”
― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

“As Mr. Aldous Huxley has truly remarked, a dark Satanic mill ought to look like a dark Satanic mill and not like the temple of mysterious and splendid gods.”
― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

“before you can be sure whether you are genuinely in favour of Socialism, you have got to decide whether things at present are tolerable or not tolerable, and you have got to take up a definite attitude on the terribly difficult issue of class.”
― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier