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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. ↗

— George Orwell

#folly #hatred #issues #itself #keeping

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. ↗

— George Orwell

#atrocities #capacity #committed #disapprove #does

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot. ↗

— George Orwell

#fire #hot #kind #know #left-wing

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? ↗

— George Orwell

#fair #gives #hearing #his #intelligent

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears. ↗

— Ovid

#fears #full #love #love is #thing

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. ↗

— George Orwell

#believe #could #ideas #intelligent #intelligent person

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. ↗

— George Orwell

#corrupt #corrupts #language #thought

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. ↗

— George Orwell

#bombs #cities #earth #factories #going

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. ↗

— George Orwell

#always #beings #demand #get #human

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. ↗

— George Orwell

#emotional #important #less #possession #sincerity