Mark Shurville

“The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“A life lived entirely at the whim of another is no life at all.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time

“(Nothing, the General muttered, is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.)”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer