No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no ... -George Orwell

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

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George Orwell Quotes to Explore

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism....
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other sid...
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent....
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac....
Serious sport is war minus the shooting....
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil....
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor....
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one....
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it....
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in wi...

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Equality has long been the end goal of historically oppressed populations in the United States....
Like Native Americans and African-Americans, women and LGBTQ people, Puerto Ricans should be seen as part of the same overarching struggle for equalit...
As a child of the Bronx who grew up in the projects, I was often too scared to come out of the closet, too blinded to see clearly my own value, my own...
I do believe that religious liberty, the First Amendment, gay rights, and transgender equality can all coexist. I'm also a constitutionalist, and we h...
It drives me batty that there isn't more equality in my business....
Equality means allowing people to achieve their full potential - for themselves and for their country....
One of the privileges of my adult life has been meeting pioneers of LGBT equality, particularly Waheed Alli, Michael Cashman and Ian McKellen....
We want Black and White to be treated equally in this country, but we cannot heal this country, we can't save race relations, we can't accomplish equa...
Equity' is only two letters away from 'equality,' after all, and who would object to that? But in those two letters is a world of difference. 'Equity'...
I'm not just equality minister I am also a Treasury secretary....