We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.
George OrwellApparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist.
George OrwellThe high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.
George OrwellIn my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement.
George Orwell