Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.
George OrwellNearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.
George OrwellA sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.
George OrwellThe intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
George Orwell