George Orwell — "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own und…"

"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it."

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

"The very word 'truth' has ceased to have any meaning."

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus …"

"The word 'socialism' has been so twisted and distorted that it means almost nothing."