John Guild

“Jack, you've debauched my sloth.”
― Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family, and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the authority, by some hundreds and see the effect upon a sea-captain, to say nothing of an absolute monarch. Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human; unless it so happens that he is immune to the poison.”
― Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise

“In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.”
― George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant