In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer... - George Orwell

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.

The great disadvantage, and advantage, of the small urban bourgeois is his limited outlook. He sees the world as a middle-class world, and everything outside, these limits is either laughable or slightly wicked.

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
From "Politics and the English Language," not 1984."