Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible sy… - George Orwell

It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.

A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.