George Orwell Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950
Birthday: June 25
Death: January 21
For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.
topic: Running, Ignorance, Thinking, Privileged, 1984 Important, Ignorance In 1984
