A millionaire cannot, for example, light the streets for himself while darkening them for other people.
 George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius (1941). copy citation

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Author George Orwell
Source The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
Topic light example
Date 1941
Language English
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“Up to a point, civilization can lift itself up by its boot-tags. However unjustly society is organized, certain technical advances are bound to benefit the whole community, because certain kinds of goods are necessarily held in common. A millionaire cannot, for example, light the streets for himself while darkening them for other people. Nearly all citizens of civilized countries now enjoy the use of good roads, germ-free water, police protection, free libraries and probably free education of a kind. Public education in England has been meanly starved of money, but it has nevertheless improved, largely owing to the devoted efforts of the teachers, and the habit of reading has become enormously more widespread.” source