They fear love because it creates a world they can't control. - George Orwell

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They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.

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About George Orwell

George Orwell (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was the pen name of British novelist, essayist, and journalist Eric Arthur Blair, whose work is characterised by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and strong support of democratic socialism.

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Pen Names: John Freeman
Birth Name: Eric Arthur Blair
Alternative Names: Orwell Eric Blair P. S. Burton

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لم يكن من المرغوب فيه أن يكون لدى عامة الشعب وعي سياسي قوي، فكل ما هو مطلوب منهم وطنية بدائية يمكن اللجوء إليها حينما يستلزم الأمر إقناعهم بقبول ساعات عمل أطول أو حصص أقل من السلع التموينية.
بل وحتى عندما كان ينتابهم شعور بالسخط، كما يحدث أحيانا، فإن سخطهم لم يكن ليفضي إلى شيء كونهم يعيشون بلا مبادئ عامة ، ولذلك كانوا يركزون غضبهم على تظلمات خاصة وقليلة الأهمية فالأخطار الكبرى لا تسترعي انتباههم.

The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.

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Here you come upon the important fact that every revolutionary opinion draws part of its strength from a secret conviction that nothing can be changed.

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