It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case.
George OrwellSnobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.
George OrwellThe most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George Orwell