“ the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. ”
George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier (1937). copy citation
| Author | George Orwell |
|---|---|
| Source | The Road to Wigan Pier |
| Topic | price liberty dirt |
| Date | 1937 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200391.txt |
Context
“The people themselves feel this, and it is this feeling that they are rationalising when they complain that their new houses — so much better, as houses, than those they have come out of — are cold and uncomfortable and 'unhomelike'.
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. There are some Corporation estates in which new tenants are systematically deloused before being allowed into their houses. All their possessions except what they stand up in are taken away from them, fumigated and sent on to the new house.” source
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. There are some Corporation estates in which new tenants are systematically deloused before being allowed into their houses. All their possessions except what they stand up in are taken away from them, fumigated and sent on to the new house.” source
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