A Quote by George Orwell

Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.

George Orwell

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Anarchy Antiquity Been Breakdown Decades Drift Empires Epoch General Heading Looking Many May Slave Slavery Stable Towards Whole World

Quote Author

George Orwell
British - Novelist
June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950

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