Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George OrwellWar is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
George OrwellWhen one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder - one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy, the appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved
George Orwell