...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes t…

George Orwell
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...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival. ✨ George Orwell (1983). 1984, p.415, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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