The first effect of poverty is that it kills thought. Author: George Orwell Copy Quote More from George Orwell “إذا تمسكت بالحقيقة مخالفا العالم برمته فإنك لست مجنون.” “To begin with, there is the frightful debauchery of taste that has already been…” “You could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, becaus…” “a type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are n…”